Italy, from North to South a journey through the Slow Cities

Along this route you will be able to appreciate the typical flavors of each town. In Asolo, you will have lunch in a private house and taste the typical wines at a local winery. Brisighella is the ideal place for a stay dedicated to well-being, culture and the pleasures of the table. The main product is represented by “Brisighello” extra virgin olive oil which boasts the European PDO. Do not forget the cheese tanned with seasoning in the chalk caves and many other excellent food and wine specialties typical of the area. In Cortona, you will admire several small shops selling handicrafts and local gastronomy along the main streets of the center. There will be a typical dinner to discover the typical Tuscan flavors. In Orvieto you will have the opportunity to taste the “umbrichelli“, a type of pasta made with water and flour and seasoned with truffles or mushrooms, or the excellent local meat served with wild chicory sautéed in a pan. In the Pollica area, visit a family organic farm that offers typical dishes of the poor Cilento tradition, all rigorously prepared with 0 km products, among which stands out a particuloar olive from Cilento, a Slow Food presidium. A stop for a typical workshop of “olives or figs” or products based on seasonality. It is impossible not to stop at Donatella a cheesemaker who, together with her husband, manage a farm. Their main product is the “Cacio ricotta“ which is also a slow food presidium. To finish with fusilli and Gioi’s soppressata.

Following the road along the coast, you arrive at Pioppi, the home of the Mediterranean diet. In the 60s the American physiologist Ancel Keys arrived in Pioppi and lived there for 40 years. He studied the benefits of the local diet, spreading the culture of the Mediterranean diet, made of healthy food, combined with a good physical activity typical of Cilento farmers , highlighting that the life of the local population was very long-lived. You can visit the Ecomuseum of the Mediterranean Diet at the Palazzo Vinciprova. For lunch, an unmissable stop at “A Casa da Delia“. Delia is the ex housekeeper of Ancel Keys and will offer you her hospitality by inviting you to taste some dishes preferred by the “Professor” so called by Delia, on the beautiful panoramic terrace of her house.

Let’s  start  with an e-bike experience in the hills of Asolo, to continue to Brisighella where nature and trekking lovers can immerse themselves in the natural beauty of the “Regional Park of the Romagna chalk vein“. A nature reserve with geological peculiarities and with very rich fauna and flora. In Sperlonga, you will find the most beautiful beaches of the Peninsula and the Grotta di Tiberio  a large natural rocky cavity open on the Tyrrhenian Sea. In Orvieto you can enjoy a healthy and regenerating walk around the ring of the cliff, a path of about 6 km that runs along the city walls surrounded by greenery from which you can admire a beautiful panorama. In Amelia, do not miss the surrounding landscape, notable for its variety of greenery: plantations of olive trees, vineyards and hills alternate with oak and holm oak woods. Walks and itineraries for trekking, cycling and mountain biking, trails for horseback riding.

It is impossible to list in a few lines all the artistic and historical heritage that this journey through the Italian villages can offer you. City walls, archaeological museums, churches and underground cities, each city of the circuit can offer an invaluable heritage, to be explored slowly.