by: Cammino Adagio | data 05/09/2022
Hi! We are Elisa and Walter, hiking and nature enthusiasts. We have just walked 850 km across Sicily to promote Italy's rich natural and artistic heritage, popularise geology and raise awareness about environmental issues.
Cammino Adagio means both “I walk slow” and “the slow path” because in a busy world we’d like to slow down and get to know each place, studying sources and listening to locals. Now we need your help to cover the next stretch of our journey, the first half (500 km) of the second project chapter: from Puglia to Tuscany.
With your support you can help us to inspire people of all ages with a feeling of wonder and shared responsibility towards the environment and their region. Choose the reward you like best: you can see your name printed in our book or even walk a bit of road with us. Without your help, we are likely to stop here. So, what are you waiting for? Support us and take part of the discovery of the Italian heartland on foot!
Traveling the world on foot to slow down, get to know our planet better and share with others everything we learn from the places we cross.
Does it sound downright silly? Or incredibly cool?
Besides walking, we take time to meet local people and organisations to understand problems and current events of each specific area. Step by step we retrace the natural and artistic heritage of Italy to document everything local and authentic.
We also translate every article in English and nearly all videos come with subtitles. Click on the icons next to the cover video above to check out our website and social media profiles by clicking the icons .
In Sicily we walked for six months, from October 2021 to April 2022, shared stories in real time for 200+ days through social media and published 80+ high-quality video interview and photo articles.
Public response has been incredible. The greatest emotion was to receive a lot of people's gratitude and see that our work conveyed a message of trust towards others as well as appreciation for well-told narrative.
So we’re thrilled to keep on walking and we’re getting ready for a new chapter: from Puglia to Tuscany, to be covered from April 2023 onwards.
For this new part there will be some additional improvements: we are going to plan outreach events in schools and public spaces, populate a YouTube channel, prepare a podcast series, increase the frequency of publication on the official website, in which there will be commentable articles for those who do not use social media.
The first goal is to raise 5000 euros to cover the cost of food and accommodation during the first half (500 km) of the "Puglia-Tuscany” expedition, that will start in April 2023. This first stretch will take us from Santa Maria di Leuca (Puglia region) to Isernia (Molise), touching parts of Basilicata (Matera, Melfi) and Campania (Irpinia).
For about three months we'll need to stay overnight in B&B's and other accommodation facilities.
We thought to bring a tent with us, but we need to charge electronic equipment — drone, computer, telephones — and work a few hours on writing and video footage from a quiet place to ensure a constant stream of published contents.
We’ll buy food preferentially from supermarkets. We’ll stick to cooking when we can, and when we can’t we’ll eat something simple from bakeries or the like.
If we reach the € 5000 goal early on, we'll move to gradually higher targets to cover the costs of outreach events and photographic gear.
We plan to donate 5% of the proceeds to effective organizations that are committed to improve farmed animal conditions because we would love, in our turn, to give something back by donating to causes we take at heart.
For many reasons, here are four:
Provinces crossed: Lecce, Taranto, Matera, Bari, Potenza, Foggia, Avellino, Benevento, Isernia.
We are a couple who met in Rome in 2021. In just a few months we found out we have many things in common and decided to embark on this journey together. While walking, we have developed both the project and the bond between us.
Walter has worked for several years as a researcher-geologist in Dutch and British universities. Always passionate about travelling on foot and storytelling, he's decided to combine the costants of his life in this exciting venture.
Elisa is an actress, passionate about botany and trekking. Thanks to her acting studies she has developed a listening habit towards nature and the human soul. She fell in love with the project right from the start and enriched it with her vision and skills.
Siamo dei volontari che amano i cammini e la natura e vogliono percorrere a piedi l’Italia lungo strade secondarie e sentieri (un totale di 3000 km circa) con gli obiettivi di studiare e raccontare il paesaggio antropologico e geografico; sensibilizzare la popolazione, attraverso interventi nelle scuole, sulle tematiche ambientali e il rapporto uomo-natura.
