But less known and far less traveled is the Via Francigena in Italy. Beginning this fall, Berkeley-based Wilderness Travel will offer guided trips on 80 miles of this ancient route, which once ran ...

It was introduced a century ago for fur farming but is now running wild in northern Italy ... maps, a handy smartphone app and emergency hotline. Walking the Tuscan stretch of the Via Francigena ...

The town is along the Via Francigena, the path that led pilgrims from Canterbury, England to Rome in the middle ages, passing through France, Switzerland and Italy, much of it through Tuscany.

It was my first day of walking the Via Francigena trail with Sloways ... the 1,300-km route through France, Switzerland and Italy led pilgrims from Canterbury in England to Rome.

Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party The Via Francigena in Italy is the first and most important road that, in the Middle Ages, connected the ...

As the Renaissance blossomed in Europe, the Via Francigena began to decline in popularity. Trading routes multiplied and shifted to pass through Florence, one of Italy’s most significant ...