Quiet Mountains of the Apennines

Italy's little-known mountains

Holiday information

Nights: 4
Grade: 2-3
Terrain: mountain and woodland paths
Hotels: three 3-star hotels
Meals: breakfast every day, dinner on 3 nights, plus 3 picnics

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Extend your stay

Extend your holiday for 2 nights and experience the beauty of Florence, staying at the 3-star Hotel Alba, or Lucca at the 3-star Puccini.

self-guided hotel-to-hotel walking, luggage transported
beautiful, little-known mountains
sweeping views from the peaks
excellent walking
warm, genuine hospitality

The Apennines, stretching from Liguria to Umbria, form Italy's spine and offer some of country's best walking. Our chosen area is the Alto Appennino Bolognese between the great cities of Florence and Bologna and close to the Tuscan border. Here, traditional villages cluster on the lower slopes of dramatic peaks rising to nearly 2,000 metres, and inviting paths lead up through thick, majestic woodland of beech, oak and chestnut to the high mountains.

We have not walked this much, nor enjoyed such hospitality, in years. In the Apennines, the meals are almost as demaniding as the walking!

Daily Telegraph

Much of the walking occurs in the protected area of the Corno alle Scale Regional Park, rich in wildlife and flowers, and named after the area's imposing highest peak. In such a quiet, untouristy area, the welcome is genuine and warm. Our chosen inns receive high praise, not least for a regional cuisine of pasta, cured meats, fish from the rivers, bread made from chestnut flour, and, in season, wild mushrooms, truffles and chestnuts.