Cammino Retico

[WalkingMan]

Just read about this 7 day walk that is being advertised in Italy for people with maybe limited time.

New hiking trail through Italy’s wild Dolomites opens for summer

The circular route is 170 kilometres long and can be completed in seven days.

www.euronews.com

 

[Tincatinker]

Limited time? A seven day walk takes seven days. Access and egress will add a couple more. That said it looks a great route for anyone who wants to go hiking in Italy rather than walk a Camino

 

[jungleboy]

Thanks for the link! I might be in the neighborhood next year…

 

[WalkingMan]

Limited time? A seven day walk takes seven days. Access and egress will add a couple more. That said it looks a great route for anyone who wants to go hiking in Italy rather than walk a Camino

Ya when I said limited time I meant in comparison to time required for say French Way,but ya,a 7 day hike could be a 9 day trip

 

[Filippo05ff]

This is the site of this cammino. It's only in Italian. https://www.camminoretico.it

 

[timr]

It looks very interesting on the site.

I have never before seen insurance included in the "package" with the credential. €80,000 for death or invalidity and € 200 for a fracture.

You get this if you join the association.
Assicurazione
Ma la cosa forse più importante è che sarete assicurati

Sarete maggiormente tutelati usufruendo delle possibilità offerte dalla polizza assicurativa legata alla tessera personale.
La polizza infortuni in questione, è dotata dei seguenti massimali:

• euro 80.000.00 in caso di morte;
• euro 80.000.00 in caso di invalidità con franchigia del 6%;
• euro 200,00 che vengono pagati sempre se in presenza di frattura ossea non si supera la franchigia.

La polizza RCT personale del socio ha un massimale unico di € 3.500.000,00.

It is way up in the Veneto, but I don't think it looks like it involves heroic mountaineering.

I have friends living up that way, so it sounds a nice idea..... Autumn maybe.

 

[Filippo05ff]

It looks very interesting on the site.

I have never before seen insurance included in the "package" with the credential. €80,000 for death of invalidity and € 200 for a fracture.

You get this if you join the association.
Assicurazione
Ma la cosa forse più importante è che sarete assicurati

Sarete maggiormente tutelati usufruendo delle possibilità offerte dalla polizza assicurativa legata alla tessera personale.
La polizza infortuni in questione, è dotata dei seguenti massimali:

• euro 80.000.00 in caso di morte;
• euro 80.000.00 in caso di invalidità con franchigia del 6%;
• euro 200,00 che vengono pagati sempre se in presenza di frattura ossea non si supera la franchigia.

La polizza RCT personale del socio ha un massimale unico di € 3.500.000,00.

It is way up in the Veneto, but I don't think it looks like it involves heroic mountaineering.

I have friends living up that way, so it sounds a nice idea..... Autumn maybe.

I live near there too, and I confirm that for sure is not like heroic alpinism! Those are rural valleys far from the most popular dolomites routes. In any case is a mountain trail.

 

[Charles Ross]

Another short 'Camino' developed in recent years is the 'Magna Via Francigena' 186 Km, @ 9 stages between Palermo and Agrigento. I want to do this! https://www.sloways.eu/camino-pilgr...na stretches,paved roads with limited traffic.

 

[jungleboy]

Another short 'Camino' developed in recent years is the 'Magna Via Francigena' 186 Km, @ 9 stages between Palermo and Agrigento. I want to do this! https://www.sloways.eu/camino-pilgrimage/sicily-magna-via-francigena#:~:text=The Magna Via Francigena stretches,paved roads with limited traffic.

I walked this a few weeks ago and @andycohn did it a few days after me. Our combined reports are here for anyone who missed them.

 

[Charles Ross]

I walked this a few weeks ago and @andycohn did it a few days after me. Our combined reports are here for anyone who missed them.

Thanks! I will enjoy reading this!!

 

[timr]

Just to add that I got in touch with them to ask a few questions on FB messenger and they responded quickly and enthusiastically.

It looks like another interesting endeavour to develop new camino/cammino-like walks, such as we have discussed here before - Magna Via Francigena in Sicily, Cammino Materano, Cammino de Salento, and the Cammino of San Francesco di Paola for example. I am sure there are more.

I rather like the idea of getting in early before they get too popular!!! I also enjoy getting away from mainline tourist destinations.

 

[jungleboy]

Just to add that I got in touch with them to ask a few questions on FB messenger and they responded quickly and enthusiastically.

Fantastic! Having just come from the Via Ellenica, there’s almost nothing better on camino than enthusiastic organisers striving to help pilgrims, as you well know Tim!

And just for fun re: camino/cammino for non-Italian speakers: cammino is the word for a walk, but since it contains a ‘doppia’ (double letter), for pronunciation purposes that means you rest a bit longer on that sound and shorten the preceding vowel. The word camino in Italian without the doppia is pronounced as it is in Spanish, but it means chimney!

It looks like another interesting endeavour to develop new camino/cammino-like walks, such as we have discussed here before - Magna Via Francigena in Sicily, Cammino Materano, Cammino de Salento, and the Cammino of San Francesco di Paola for example. I am sure there are more.

Great list and I would add the Cammini Bizantini, which I am anxious to discover, and the Cammino di San Benedetto, in addition to the better-known Via Francigena and Via di Francesco.

I rather like the idea of getting in early before they get too popular!!! I also enjoy getting away from mainline tourist destinations.

Definitely!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Thanks for the link! I might be in the neighborhood next year…

I thought of you, Nick, the minute I read it just now.

 

[timr]

Great list and I would add the Cammini Bizantini, which I am anxious to discover, and the Cammino di San Benedetto, in addition to the better-known Via Francigena and Via di Francesco.


Definitely!

And for a coast-to-coast there is San Tomasso

 

[Filippo05ff]

And for who want to walk for a long time:
https://viaromeagermanica.com/
This way encounter the cammino retico near Arsiè too(and pass three kms from my home near Piazzola Sul Brenta). I love the fact that in Italy there's a lot of growing interest in pilgrimages and, more in general, in slow and walking tourism!

 

[Filippo05ff]

And for a coast-to-coast there is San Tomasso

This has to be amazing! The Abruzzo regione has wonderful natural parks, and great food too! Like arrosticini and spaghetti alla chitarra!

 

[timr]

This has to be amazing! The Abruzzo regione has wonderful natural parks, and great food too! Like arrosticini and spaghetti alla chitarra!

You are convincing me with the food! A friend did it last. year and found the mountains fairly convincing!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

You are convincing me with the food! A friend did it last. year and found the mountains fairly convincing!

We often follow our noses, don't we...

 

[andycohn]

Echoing @jungleboy, @timr, and others above, Italy has a mind-boggling number of developed and well-signed hiking trails, from the Alps and Dolomites in the north down to the heel of the boot in the south, and over in Sicily and Sardinia, too. These are beyond the well-known Via Francigena, and traverse some spectacular countryside. The Italian national hiking federation (CAI) does a great job of mapping and maintaining most of them. For anyone interested in exploring the possibilities, I'd suggest going to the website of Italy's leading guidebook publisher, Terre di Mezzo. Many of their books are in English, but you can get an idea of the range of possibilities by scanning the whole website. https://www.terre.it/en/.

One trail we particularly enjoyed, not mentioned above, is the Via degli Dei, which traverses the Appennine mountains from Bologna to Florence. It's about 140 kilometers, and there's plenty of infrastructure. The Terre di Mezzo guide is only in Italian, but it's easy to plan a trip along it using the guide (even if you don't speak Italian) and the official website, which you can open in Chrome for a translation. https://www.terre.it/en/. Forwalk also has a good guide: https://vieromee.forwalk.org/en-us/guide/1-the-via-degli-dei/.

I don't mean to hijack this thread. Just to further expand on what others have said about the wonderful possibilities in Italy.

Not to mention, of course, the food.

 

[timr]

I'd suggest going to the website of Italy's leading guidebook publisher, Terre di Mezzo. Many of their books are in English, but you can get an idea of the range of possibilities by scanning the whole website. https://www.terre.it/en/.

I have always liked the Terre di Mezzo guides which I used initially in Italian. Good to see that they continue to work on English versions. Long ago (well in 2018) they had the guide to the second half of Francigena as an interactive app, (not just a pdf), but they abandoned that as an idea. (They kindly responded when I wrote to ask them.)

I do like guide books, and if one is good, more are better I always think. I have five or six of their Italian guides to walks I am rather unlikely to do...... But I still enjoy reading them.

And this, released on 29 March of this year had thus far escaped me......But i have just ordered it.

https://issuu.com/terredimezzo/docs/estratto_cammini_d_italia It lists 100 walks in Italy!

Scopri il libro "Cammini d’Italia. 100 spettacolari itinerari a piedi"

Per progettare e sognare il prossimo viaggio a passo lento!

www.terre.it

 

[timr]

I don't mean to hijack this thread. Just to further expand on what others have said about the wonderful possibilities in Italy.

I cannot speak for the OP, but I don't think of that as a hijack - more like organic growth.
And thanks for that.

 

[andycohn]

I have always liked the Terre di Mezzo guides which I used initially in Italian. Good to see that they continue to work on English versions. Long ago (well in 2018) they had the guide to the second half of Francigena as an interactive app, (not just a pdf), but they abandoned that as an idea. (They kindly responded when I wrote to ask them.)

I do like guide books, and if one is good, more are better I always think. I have five or six of their Italian guides to walks I am rather unlikely to do...... But I still enjoy reading them.

And this, released on 29 March of this year had thus far escaped me......But i have just ordered it.

https://issuu.com/terredimezzo/docs/estratto_cammini_d_italia It lists 100 walks in Italy!

Scopri il libro "Cammini d’Italia. 100 spettacolari itinerari a piedi"

Per progettare e sognare il prossimo viaggio a passo lento!

www.terre.it

Thanks!!!! This looks to be a perfect book. Looks like it just came out (that's our excuse for missing it), and I couldn't help but instantly order it myself.

A tip for anyone in the US (like me) or outside the EU: If you order the book from the major Italian bookseller, IBS.it, the postage will be less than half what Terre di Mezzo charges. (I've done the same with other guides from Terre di Mezzo, too). Here's the link to the book on the IBS.it site:

Cammini d'Italia. 100 spettacolari itinerari a piedi - Monica Nanetti - Libro - Terre di Mezzo - Percorsi | IBS

Cammini d'Italia. 100 spettacolari itinerari a piedi è un libro a cura di Monica Nanetti pubblicato da Terre di Mezzo nella collana Percorsi: acquista su IBS a 24.90€!

www.ibs.it

 

[timr]

Look!
I cannot resist. Ordered on amazon.it on 6 June In Liverpool on 8 June. Postage €3.85. Cannot complain. Even after (whisper...) Brexit.
It is a walloping great book, 300pp. See mug for scale.
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[jungleboy]

Look!
I cannot resist.

I’ll look for it when I get home to Italy!

 

[timr]

I’ll look for it when I get home to Italy!

You have moved??

 

[jungleboy]

You have moved??

Yes, to Rome!! But in London this weekend.

 

[timr]

As they used to say when I lived in Nigeria....."I jealous you too much!"
Rome I would happily live in henceforth and forever. I lived there 1991-1995.
I kind of live outside London atm but actually am at ancestral home in Liverpool with domestic duties for past 3+ years.

 

[NoamA]

Just read about this 7 day walk that is being advertised in Italy for people with maybe limited time.

New hiking trail through Italy’s wild Dolomites opens for summer

The circular route is 170 kilometres long and can be completed in seven days.

www.euronews.com

Hi, is there a guidebook or website to plan routes, book refuges? Thanks

 

[timr]

Hi, is there a guidebook or website to plan routes, book refuges? Thanks

Welcome @NoamA
For the walk mentioned by the OP?
Yes as @Filippo05ff kindly told us above!
https://www.camminoretico.it

 

[Ho ming chan]

I am interested to walk retico in late September. I am searching for the passport available. Anyone knows?

 

[timr]

This is their website and I found them very responsive on FB messenger also.

https://www.camminoretico.it

 

[timr]

@jungleboy @Filippo05ff @andycohn

Look what I got in the post today!!! Hold me back......

 

[jungleboy]

@jungleboy @Filippo05ff @andycohn

Look what I got in the post today!!! Hold me back......

Do it!!!

 

[Filippo05ff]

@jungleboy @Filippo05ff @andycohn

Look what I got in the post today!!! Hold me back......

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Good!! If you need some informations or suggestions about what to do before or after your cammino feel free to ask! Buona preparazione e buon Cammino!

 

[andycohn]

@jungleboy @Filippo05ff @andycohn

Look what I got in the post today!!! Hold me back......

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You're blazing the trail for me (along with Nick)! I've got it high on the list for next spring.