Cavarzano Pass
A quick round of hairpin bends moves through the Matilda chestnut groves, before unraveling and climbing inexorably to the 1,000-meter elevation. The first few kilometers are generous, but the closer we get to the Alpe, the more uncertain the terrain becomes. All in…
Faggeta Path
Well before the construction of the Porrettana road, well before its progenitor Leopoldina, the mountain territories had a rather different road network. There was in fact a complex system of roads and paths strictly controlled by the customs that regulated access between the…
F.A.P. – The Upper Pistoia Railway
It is June 1926 and in the small towns of the Pistoia mountains there is something novelty in the air. It begins the story of the little red and white trains that will accompany workers from the Lima and Reno valleys to the…