C.administering is good for your health, frees your mind, allows you to discover places that you would never see while driving. But walking is not beautiful not only in the countryside or in the mountains. It’s great to do it in the city too.
Urban trekking: discovering Italy by walking
Is called urban trekking and it is that activity that combines sport, art, taste and the desire to discover the most hidden and curious corners of the city, through less known itineraries and circuits. A real wandering through the streets of the citieswhich can be free and aimless or more structured through routes designed by experts but always strictly on foot.
Sustainable itineraries
October 31 is the National day of urban trekking with the initiative, conceived in 2002 by the Municipality of Sienawhich returns for its 19th edition under the banner of “What a Trekking Show”. A day in which 71 municipalities of the 17 regions they will set out on interesting sustainable paths that respect the quality of life of the residents.
Get to know the cities with urban trekking
The proposed itineraries have an average duration of two to three hours and vary in difficulty. By walking you can discover them monuments of art, panoramic points, artisan shops where you can get to know the most characteristic aspects of local life. Between the cities, IvreaItalian Book Capital 2022, in collaboration with Turismo Torino e Provincia, proposes an exceptional tour whose protagonists are the booksentitled “The Italian Capital of the Book 2022 on stage”.
Always in Piedmont, in Druento, in the province of Turin, a circular route will allow you to walk in the historic center where the actors of the Theater Company “I Retroscena” will take a trip back in time.
In Bologna from oratory to oratory
TO Siena you will go on the steps of music, in places not usually open to the public such as Palazzo Sergardi, or little-known environments such as the prestigious Chigiana Music Academy, founded almost a hundred years ago.
TO Bologna the itinerary foresees a tour from oratory to oratory. From that of San Carlo Borromeo who escaped the bombings of the Second World War, to that of Filippo Neri, a splendid late-Baroque container.
Plunge into the occult in Puglia
Moving on in Puglia, in Massafrain the province of Taranto, you will dive into the art and traditions of the occult. And finally, in Sicily in Leonforte, you will follow the “Vie del Principe”a walk that will cross a large part of Leo’s historical-anthropological memory founded by Prince Nicolò Placido Branciforti in 1610.
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