Nine paths to revive the sites of the 2016 earthquake

If time heals wounds, then Slow tourism can be a source of rebirth. After the pain of earthquakes between 2016 and 2017, the areas affected now will start again through nine walking routes between nature and villages. Itineraries that have been described in the volume "I Paths of Rebirth. Hidden Treasures in the Apennines "central" by Chiara Giacobelli (Giunti Editore), presented this morning at Palazzo Chigi with the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchè, and the Extraordinary Commissioner for the 2016 earthquake, Guido Castelli. According to the dossier "Italy, Country of Paths" by Terre di half, in 2024 in Italy there were over 191 thousand walkers, up 29% on the previous year. they could be the key to restarting places where the history of our country developed and that they preserve both secular and religious paths. In particular, it is about the Franciscan Way of the Marca, that of the Via Lauretana, the one of the Capuchins, the one in the Mutated Lands, that of San Giuseppe da Leonessa, the path of San Benedetto, The Way of St. Francis, the natural path of the Parks and the Way of the Mountains and the Saints. Between the Tibetan bridge of Sellano, the cycle/pedestrian path of Nera, the Ferentillo Mummy Museum, the Velino Gorges and many others other locations, the nine "rebirth" walks are intertwine in a plot that promises naturalistic experiences and not only. "In the 70 places to stop along the paths of the crater, where bed spaces are currently very limited, we hope that a reception network will be created soon", he said Commissioner Castelli explained. Projects that will now benefit the flows in territories "affected by undertourism", recalled the Minister Santanchè, where it is possible to develop tourism whose "the most important element is the bond that is created between people and territory" in the logic "of a sense of identity and belonging" to the Apennine area.