Assisi (Italy)
Assisi (Italy) Day 1 47 kms, August 1, 2013 The Traveler is has no doubt that he wants to continue his Eurohike on down the Italian boot. This country has so much to offer. And up ahead it looks to only get better: from here on south it's all going to be mountains. He leaves behind the vast, wealthy region of Emilia Romagna and enters the more modest regions of Marche and Umbria. But which route should I take? The Traveler wonders. The coast? There are clearly more towns that way. But he suspects that a lot of them will be generic beach towns--not really the best place to experience authentic Italian culture. He notices that Assisi is down the road, and remembers reading about ancient piligrimages made this way. He decides to look it up and... lo and behold, there are marked pilgrimage routes for people to hike from where he is all the way through Marche and Umbria to Assisi! The Traveler immediately knows that this is the route he must take. He wi...