Experience Tuscany

The best way to get to know Tuscany, just like any place, is walking through it. Walking you can discover in depth the celebrated landscapes, savoring them at a slow pace, knowing every corner and little detail that too often gets overlooked. Hiking in Tuscany is a way to get in direct contact with nature and with its incredible beauty. Get a different point of view far from the ordinary and mass tourism.
Tuscany is the ideal place for all this, a series of peculiar scenarios that run from the peaks of the Apennine mountains to the Maremma countryside. The step by step discover brings hikers to encounter something spectacular and unexpected. All kinds of hiking tracks for all tastes have been designed to cover the entire Tuscan region. There is enough for all tastes and athletic preparation. Whether you are in for a Sunday trip with the whole family through natural parks, or for most challenging climbing routes and scenic walks, you just need to pick your preferred.
Getting into details, Garfagnana offers an unspoilt natural environment, paths of varying difficulty and the possibility of pairing culture and sports. Small medieval villages where traditions are still live and are there for you to discover and taste, like the regional dishes or specific habits bound to the geography of the place. Like the spectacle offered by the amazing white mountains of the Apuan Alps chain. Their marble is famous around the world for its quality, and its sparkling white shines under the sunlight reflecting the light all around the valley like a diamond. Only by hiking here you can experience such unspoilt beauty.
However, the advantages of walking are not only bound to the mountain, but can be found in cities as well. Siena is characterized by winding and strongly sloping streets, creating the ideal situation for urban hiking that combines physical activity with the discovery of the city’s artistic heritage.
In the past hiking along routes was also a way to prove one’s faith and a cathartic process. This used to happen along the Via Francigena, still charming and full of testimonies of the past, on which every year portions of the ancient pilgrimage are revived.
On the hills surrounding Florence there are about 170 kilometers of hiking trails. Along the Renaissance Ring you can find monasteries, castles and Romanesque churches. From every point of the ring your eyes will always be able to find its center localized on the focal point of the Duomo, the Cathedral of Florence and a symbol of the Renaissance.
If you prefer the seascape, the Etruscan Coast offers routes between earth and sea with plenty of tracks that can be discovered walking, mountain biking and horseback riding.

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