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This guidebook describes the Grande Escursione Appenninica (GEA), a nearly 400km long, three week trek crossing the Apenines in 23 stages, from Bocca Trabaria to Passo Due Santi on the edge of Liguria. The route dips in and out of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, never dropping below 400 metres. Best walked between spring and autumn, it is suitable for any reasonably fit walker, and this guidebook provides step-by-step route descriptions, accompanied by detailed mapping. There are transport options for joining and leaving the walk at a number of points, making it perfect for undertaking in small sections or single-day walks. There are suggestions for accommodation en route in comfortable guest houses and alpine-style huts, making it essential reading for anyone undertaking the GEA. The Apennines are Italys best-kept secret. Forming the rugged spine of the Italian peninsula, this range provides thousands of kilometres of marked trails over rocky crests and ridges and explores extensive forests and meadows, following routes established long ago by traders, pilgrims and shepherds and little affected by mass tourism. Dotted throughout are historic sanctuaries, national parks and nature reserves, wildlife and wildflowers, incredible roads and passes, and stark memorials to the terrible events of World War II.

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About the Author

Gillian Price was born in England but moved to Australia when young After a - photo 1

Gillian Price was born in England but moved to Australia when young. After a degree in anthropology and work in adult education, she set off to travel through Asia and trek the Himalayas. The culmination of her journey was Venice where, her enthusiasm for mountains fired, the next logical step was towards the Dolomites, only hours away. Starting there, Gillian is steadily exploring the mountain ranges of Italy and bringing them to life for visitors in a series of outstanding guides for Cicerone. When not out walking with her Venetian cartographer husband, Gillian works as a travel writer www.gillianprice.eu. An ardent promoter of public transport to minimise impact in alpine areas, she is an active member of the Italian Alpine Club CAI and Mountain Wilderness.

Other Cicerone guides by the author

Across the Eastern Alps the E5

Alpine Flowers

Gran Paradiso: Alta Via 2 Trek and Day Walks

Italys Sibillini National Park

Italys Stelvio National Park

Shorter Walks in the Dolomites

The Tour of the Bernina

Through the Italian Alps the GTA

Trekking in the Alps (contributor)

Trekking in the Dolomites

Walking in the Central Italian Alps

Walking in Corsica

Walking in the Dolomites

Walking in Sicily

Walking in Tuscany

Walking in Umbria

Walking the Italian Lakes

Walking on the Amalfi Coast

Walking and Trekking on Corfu

Walks and Treks in the Maritime Alps

TREKKING IN THE APENNINES

GEA GRANDE ESCURSIONE APPENNINICA

by Gillian Price

2 POLICE SQUARE MILNTHORPE CUMBRIA LA7 7PY wwwciceronecouk Gillian Price - photo 2

2 POLICE SQUARE, MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA LA7 7PY
www.cicerone.co.uk

Gillian Price 2015

Second edition 2015

ISBN: 978 1 85284 766 1

First edition 2005

ISBN: 978 1 85284 416 5

Printed by KHL Printing, Singapore

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.

Maps by Nicola Regine.

Acknowledgements

Heaps of thanks to Anna, Colleen, Daniele, Laura, Clive and Lucy for their immensely enjoyable company on the trail, Marty for a route check, the woodcutters and hunters who pointed us in the right direction the first time, CAI branches for practical information, the rifugi cooks for their delectable bilberry tarts and Giorgio Baruffini of Parma for his help with those place name explanations that so intrigue me.

Thanks to my publisher Jonathan, who said yes once again, the great team at Cicerone who put the book together, the many readers who kindly sent in updates for the first edition and, last but nowhere least, to Nicola for the maps.

Updates to this Guide

While every effort is made by our authors to ensure the accuracy of guidebooks as they go to print, changes can occur during the lifetime of an edition. Any updates that we know of for this guide will be on the Cicerone website (www.cicerone.co.uk/766/updates), so please check before planning your trip. We also advise that you check information about such things as transport, accommodation and shops locally. Even rights of way can be altered over time. We are always grateful for information about any discrepancies between a guidebook and the facts on the ground, sent by email to info@cicerone.co.uk or by post to Cicerone, 2 Police Square, Milnthorpe LA7 7PY, United Kingdom.

Front cover: Between Monte Marmagna and Monte Braiola (Stage 22).

CONTENTS
On the way up to Colle Bruciata Stage 17 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION - photo 3
On the way up to Colle Bruciata Stage 17 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION - photo 4
On the way up to Colle Bruciata Stage 17 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION - photo 5

On the way up to Colle Bruciata (Stage 17)

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
Between Colla di Casaglia and Badia Moscheta Stage 7 After 10 years away from - photo 6

Between Colla di Casaglia and Badia Moscheta (Stage 7)

After 10 years away from the Apennine mountains, it was with great pleasure and relief that I discovered very little has changed on this memorable trek. Long rambles in solitude are still the flavour of the day, while a steady trickle of pilgrims on the Franciscan trails are now found in the treks southern parts. The forests are still vast and magical, the village inhabitants as friendly as ever and the meals thankfully mouth-wateringly delicious. The few notable differences changes for the better are the hugely improved waymarking and the places where the GEA has been rerouted to take in more superbly scenic ridges and summits.

Gillian Price, 2015

En route to Poggio Scali Stage 5 INTRODUCTION Your peaks are beautiful ye - photo 7

En route to Poggio Scali (Stage 5)

INTRODUCTION
Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines!
In the soft light of these serenest skies;
From the broad highland region, black with pines,
Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise.
To the Apennines, William Cullen Bryant, 1835

The mountainous Apennines, without a doubt, are Italys best-kept secret. Forming the rugged spine of the slender Italian peninsula, they seem to provide support as it ventures out into the Mediterranean. For walkers this glorious elongated range provides thousands of kilometres of marked walking trails over stunning panoramic ridges and stupendous forested valleys, touching on quiet rural communities little affected by mass tourism. Dotted throughout are historic sanctuaries, hospitable mountain inns, national parks and nature reserves home to wildlife and marvellous wildflowers, incredible roads and passes that testify to feats of engineering, and stark memorials to the terrible events of World War II.

The Apennines

The Apennine chain runs along the entire length of Italy and clocks up some 1400km from the link with the Alps close to the French border, all the way south to the Straits of Messina, even extending over to Sicily. The highest peak is the 2912m Corno Grande in Italys southern Abruzzo region. As a formidable barrier that splits the country in two lengthways, the range has witnessed centuries of wars and skirmishes, alternating with the passage of traders, pilgrims and daring bandits.

Heading towards Libro Aperto Stage 15 The rock is by and large sedimentary - photo 8

Heading towards Libro Aperto (Stage 15)

The rock is, by and large, sedimentary in nature sandstone, shale and some limestone deposited in an ancient sea during the Mesozoic era (24566 million years ago). The mountains were formed immediately after their neighbours, the Alps, when some 66 million years ago, and climaxing around two million years BCE remnants of the African plate were forced together and squeezed upwards, little by little.

Both volcanic and seismic activity shaped the Apennines, though ancient ice masses also played a part. Tell-tale clues are sheltered cirques like giant armchairs, once filled by ice from a glacier tongue and nowadays more often than not home to a lake or tarn. The present aspect of the Apennines steep, rough western flanks overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, in contrast to the relatively gentler slopes on the eastern Adriatic side is due mainly to recent erosion by water.

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