Hiking
31 places
HikingScala Fenicia
Marina Grande→Anacapri
The ancient stone stairway that for centuries was the only link between Marina Grande and Anacapri, step after step up the face of the mountain.
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Sentiero degli Dei
Agerola→Nocelle
The path that runs along the mountainside between Agerola and Nocelle, suspended above the coast: terraces, dry-stone walls and the sea opening all the way to the Faraglioni of Capri.
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Ponte Tibetano di Laviano
Laviano (SA)
Ninety metres suspended over the Vallone delle Conche: on the Tibetan bridge of Laviano you walk through the void amid the woods, your gaze running all the way to the Sele valley.
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Zipline 'Volo dell'Angelo' di Trentinara
Trentinara (SA)
Sixteen hundred metres of cable strung above the gorges of the Cilento: hooked to the Volo dell'Angelo of Trentinara, you glide toward the gulf of Salerno at the speed of the wind.
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Zipline del Fiordo di Furore
Furore (SA)
Seven hundred metres of cable cross the fjord of Furore to Conca dei Marini: a flight of a few instants suspended between the rock walls and the blue of the coast.
HikingValle delle Ferriere
Amalfi (SA)
Above Amalfi the trail climbs a damp valley of waterfalls and prehistoric ferns, among the ruins of the old ironworks swallowed by the vegetation.
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Sentiero dei Limoni
Maiori (SA)
An ancient route of steps and mule tracks links Maiori to Minori through the lemon terraces, the coast opening at every bend onto the sea.
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Alta Via dei Monti Lattari
Castellammare di Stabia (NA)
The ridge of the Monti Lattari, traced by a long crest path, runs among beech woods and rocky balconies suspended between the gulf of Naples and that of Salerno.
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Anello di Punta Campanella
Massa Lubrense (NA)
At the tip of the Sorrento peninsula the trail reaches Punta Campanella, where a watchtower gazes at Capri opposite, across a narrow, blue arm of sea.
HikingMonte Faito
Vico Equense (NA)
Above the gulf of Naples the Faito covers itself in cool beech woods, a destination of panoramic ridges where in summer you breathe mountain air a stone's throw from the sea.
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Sentiero del Passetiello
Capri (NA)
The ancient mule track that once crossed the island from Capri to Anacapri climbs steeply among the holm oaks, until it suddenly opens onto the Faraglioni and Marina Piccola.
HikingMonte Cervati
Piaggine (SA)
The highest peak in Campania is reached from Piaggine through beech woods and high-altitude meadows, where a cave-sanctuary opens just below the summit.
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Gole del Calore
Felitto (SA)
Along the river Calore, near Felitto, the rock narrows into green gorges where the emerald water flows slowly, navigable by canoe beneath sheer walls.
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Gole di Caccaviola
Cusano Mutri (BN)
Carved by the Titerno in the Matese, the gorges of Caccaviola are traversed with harness and helmet, among roaring waterfalls and pools where the light barely filters through.
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Salita al Gran Cono del Vesuvio (da Quota 1000)
Ercolano (NA)
From Quota 1000 the trail climbs the ash up to the rim of the Gran Cono, where the smoking crater opens up and below stretches the whole gulf of Naples.
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Il Cretaio e il Bosco della Maddalena
Casamicciola Terme (NA)
The trail of the craters: you walk among holm oaks, strawberry trees and heather, and every bend is the rim of an extinct volcano. It is the green heart of Ischia, the one you cannot see from the sea.
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Bosco della Falanga
Serrara Fontana (NA)
A chestnut wood full of houses carved inside the boulders: the farmers lived in the stone, and in a pit dug into the ground they stored the snow of the Epomeo to sell it in summer as ice. The wood is still there, the houses too, empty.
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Sentiero dei Pizzi Bianchi
Serrara Fontana (NA)
A canyon of white tufo (volcanic tuff) pinnacles that look like melted candles, carved by water over thousands of years. The path drops down among them and ends, almost as a joke, facing the sea of the Maronti.
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Piano Liguori
Barano d'Ischia (NA)
The gentlest and most beautiful path on the island: you walk between rows of vines and cellars dug into the tufo (volcanic tuff), with the sea 300 metres below and Capri on the horizon. A few families still live here, and you can only get there on foot.
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Salita del Petraio
Napoli (NA)
Five hundred steps dropping from the Vomero down to Chiaia along an ancient watercourse, among bassi (ground-floor homes), washing lines, cats and little gardens. At every turn the bay reappears, and there is not a single tourist.
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Piano di Verteglia
Montella (AV)
A plateau at 1,230 metres ringed by beech forest, where you snowshoe in winter and the herds graze in summer: a piece of the Apennines that looks like Norway, an hour from Naples.
HikingMonte Cervialto
Bagnoli Irpino (AV)
The highest peak of the Picentini, 1,809 metres: on a clear day you see the Tyrrhenian and the Lucanian Apennines together. Inside the mountain, the water that quenches Puglia.
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Monte Partenio
Summonte (AV)
The sacred mountain that gives the Park its name: beech woods, ruined hermitages and, along the ridge, a silence no Montevergine tourist ever suspects.
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Monte La Difensa (massiccio del Monte Camino)
Rocca d'Evandro (CE)
The mountain the Devil's Brigade climbed by night, under the freezing rain of December 1943, to drop on the Germans from behind. On the ridges there remain shrapnel, gun positions and a view worth every drop of sweat.
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Monte Sammucro
San Pietro Infine (CE)
From the summit you see at once the ghost village of San Pietro Infine, the Mignano gap and the valley leading to Cassino: the whole battlefield of the Gustav Line in a single glance, among dry-stone walls that once were trenches.
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Cima del Monte Massico
Mondragone (CE)
From the ridge that divides the Campanian plain from the Gulf of Gaeta, the eye reaches as far as Ischia. On these slopes, legend says, Bacchus disguised as a wayfarer asked old Falernus for hospitality, and to thank him made the vines grow that would yield the wine of emperors.
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Vetta del Monte Maggiore (Pizzo San Salvatore)
Formicola (CE)
The roof of the Monti Trebulani: a thousand metres of limestone rising out of nowhere and handing you, in a single turn on your heels, the Volturno, the Matese, Vesuvius and, on clear days, the sea.
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Monte Tifata e i ruderi del santuario di Diana
San Prisco (CE)
The mountain sacred to Diana Tifatina, where the holm oaks of the sacred wood gave the mountain its name: you climb among ruins that the shepherds still call the temple of Jupiter, and from the summit cross the Capuan plain opens all the way to the sea.
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Eremo di San Michele Arcangelo a Palombara
San Felice a Cancello (CE)
A hermitage clinging to a spur of rock, founded — so they say — in 862 by the Lombard prince Landone after a victory over Naples. All around, opened tombs, walls of houses that are gone, and a spring that has never run dry.
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Gole di Conca Torta
Cusano Mutri (BN)
A stone's throw from the houses, the Reviola torrent has cut a limestone gullet between little waterfalls and green pools: you go through in a harness, hanging from steel cables, with the water under your feet.
HikingMonte Mutria
Cusano Mutri (BN)
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three metres of limestone ridge: on clear days, the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic in a single glance. Below, the valleys where the Titerno is born.