Description
Italian cultural landscape and mountains within the same region.
Umbria features hills, forests, historic towns, and elevations extending towards the Apennines and Sibillini Mountains. This book illustrates how these can be experienced through day walks. It provides a broad foundation for a holiday combining walking with visits to small towns, without requiring all walking days to have the same format or level of challenge throughout your stay in the region.
Forty graded walks across several sub-regions.
The selection includes routes of varying lengths and terrain types, distributed among six areas. You can choose gentle excursions or more extensive walks depending on your accommodation and desired experience. Historic sites and nature reserves offer variety, with opportunities to combine the walk itself with stops at cultural landmarks and local places along the way throughout the day.
Maps and practical information at hand.
Route descriptions and maps are supported by information on transport, accommodation, and facilities. This simplifies planning walks from various bases and assessing how an excursion fits into a larger tour. The guide is also useful when selecting an area before booking, offering sufficient breadth to compare several options based on interest and available time.
Choose your walk by elevation and season.
Summer heat can make open trails and long ascents demanding, while higher mountains present different conditions than the valleys. Grading and route information should therefore be used in conjunction with the current weather forecast. The guide is suitable for regular walkers who desire a varied selection and wish to experience Umbria at a more leisurely pace, allowing for breaks and cultural history rather than merely accumulating kilometers.
A long tradition of hiking guides.
Cicerone has published guidebooks since 1969. The publisher emerged among climbers and mountaineers who wished to share their thorough knowledge of routes – a tradition that continues to shape the publisher’s books on walking, trekking, and other outdoor experiences.
About this edition.
Author: Gillian Price. English language. 208 pages. Second edition, published in 2019. ISBN 9781852849665.
