Sentiero Italia
The Sentiero Italia (SI) is a 6,000-kilometer long- distance hiking trail that runs through the whole of Italy in more than 300 daily stages .
course
The Sentiero Italia begins in Trieste , runs counterclockwise through the entire Alpine arc , follows the Apennines to the south and crosses Sicily and Sardinia . On long sections it is identical to older regional hiking trails, for example in the Piedmontese western Alps with the 55-day Grande Traversata delle Alpi , in the Ligurian Apennines with the Alta Via dei Monti Liguri and in the Tuscan Apennines with the Grande Escursione Appenninica . The marking is red-white-red with black lettering "SI"
history
The idea for the Sentiero Italia was formulated in 1983. In 1995 a group of hikers walked the entire trail in eight months; another group completed the overall ascent in 1999.
Current state
Currently (2015) the Sentiero Italia is only marked on parts of it, especially where it coincides with regional hiking trails like the Grande Traversata delle Alpi. Most of the other sections are unmarked, often difficult to find on the basis of maps in the area and completely unknown to the locals.
The mountain journalist Stefano Ardito from Rome wrote in 2015: "The project of the 'Sentiero Italia' along the entire Apennine, which I started a quarter of a century ago with a few friends, is due to the indifference of official bodies and the jealousy of individual associations (that too is Italy, unfortunately) fizzled out. "
literature
- R. Carnovalini, G. Corbellini, T. Valsesia: Camminaitalia. Seimila chilometri dalla Sardegna alle Alpi, le tappe e gli itinerari del "Sentiero Italia". (Le guide di Airone). Giorgio Mondadori, Milano 1995, ISBN 88-374-1457-9 .
- Benjamin Flad: Sentiero Italia - Trans Sardinia: From Santa Teresa to Monti. Conrad Stein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86686-195-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ alpinwelt 1/2015, p. 25, trans. R. Reisinger