Hiking Special
One of the natural paradises among the most fascinating of Italy - Discovering the best hiking and eno-gastronomic trails.
Geographically we are located between Umbria, Marche, Abruzzo and Tuscany, in a strategic crossing point from where, with just one shot, places of great interest are easily reachable.
Secret corners of Sibillini National Park [Umbria-Marche]
●Among top of world hiking, the Sibillini National Park offers a spectacular, mysterious, suggestive, landscape...Mount Vettore (Central Italy third highest peak 2476 mt.), Lake Pilato (Up top Mount Vettore, the only glacial lake of the Appennines, is the natural habitat of a small shellfish having a typical red colour, unique surviving species [Chirocefalo del Marchesoni], Pilato's valley, surrounded by the imposing peak of the Scoglio del Lago [2373 mt.] and Mount Vettore [2476 mt.]), Castelluccio di Norcia, with the surreal great plain of Pian Grande and Pian Perduto (Sailing flight paradise and photography lovers for it’s flowers blooming).
●Gola del Fiastrone and Gola dell'Infernaccio (the “Fiastrone and Hell Gorges”- Sibillini National Park Magic and Flowering Slope - A paradisiacal path made of small rivers and waterfalls, the most exciting gorges in central Italy), the wizard Sibilla cave (Upon Sibilla's mountain at 2145 mt. are found the ruins of the entrance to the famous and mytical cave of the "Renowned wizard and Prophetess" Sibilla.)
●Norcia (Saint Benedict [the western monasticism founder and patron of Europe] birth place Historical town center and museums).
●Castoriana Valley (With the suggestive Benedictine Abbey of St Eutizio which dates back to the V° century and, over the centuries, has been the political and religious centre of a vast area. And other millennial hermitages and abbeys valley - The medieval villages and surgical school of Preci, developed in de XVI° century and particularly well-known all over Europe - 15 Km)
●Cascia and Roccaporena (Saint Rita patron Saint of impossible and hopeless cases birth place and sanctuary - 25 Km)
●Marmores water-falls and Terni (Terni Saint Valentino patron Saint of all lovers birth place - 60 Km)
Abruzzo
Natural wonders of primordial Italy - A rich history dating back to Neolithic times and one of the wealthiest regions in Italy.
●Campo Imperatore with his majesty the Gran Sasso d’Italia [first highest peak of centr. Italy 2912 mts o.s.l.] and Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park [Monti della Laga National Park], one of the largest and most precious protected areas in Europe. Here the great treasures of nature have been living together with the amazing cultural heritage for millennia.
●Fortezza di Rocca Calascio [Rocca Calascio fortress], the impressive medieval fortress considered by the most american magazine National Geographic, among the 15 most beautiful castles in the world
Other close and easily reachable places
Orvieto - Spoleto – Montefalco - Assisi – Todi – Gubbio – The Val d’Orcia [the Orcia Valley] with Pienza and Montepulciano - Siena and Chianti side - Florence - Rome.