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Three of the cleanest lakes in Europe
Footloose route Southern Lakes is open from April – October June – October are the best months for swimming in the lakes. Lakes Bracciano, Vico and Read more »
February 9, 2015
Posted by:Kate Whinney
Who were the Etruscans?
February 11, 2015
Posted by:Kate Whinney
Find out on our all-inclusive Escorted tour Unknown Tuscany: (24-31 May), or on our Independent Footloose route: Etruscan Lanes to Orvieto (open April-October). By 850 BC new cultural influences in the peoples of central western Italy had developed into a distinctive civilisation – that of the Etruscans. Their origins, however, remain unknown, together with their language – which is unrelated Read more »
The Abbeys of Umbria
June 12, 2015
Posted by:Clare Dungan
Lara Piccioli gives us an insight into some of the beautiful churches and abbeys of Umbria that you will discover during your walking holiday of the region. Umbria, the little green region in the centre of the Italian peninsula, is a place I hold very close to my heart. Although a touch biased as I was born there, the region Read more »
Sicily: Walking in the Madonie Mountains
September 15, 2015
Posted by:Clare Dungan
Dr Lynne Viti continues her blog series about her recent walking holiday to Sicily with ATG, in this installment she describes her trek across the Madonie Read more »
Pieve a Castello – A Leisurely Tuscan Ramble
June 3, 2015
Posted by:Clare Dungan
Roger Hall, a journalist from the New Zealand Herald recently visited our idyllic Tuscan Retreat, Pieve a Castello. He joined a group doing our Pieve As Read more »
Sicily – Approach to Cefalu
November 15, 2015
Posted by:Kate Whinney
Dr Lynne Viti continues her blog series about her recent walking holiday to Sicily with ATG. In this installment she describes the final leg of her Read more »