The Great Ring of the Ascoli Villages. A Guide and Literary Notebook.

So what is the Grande Anello dei Borghi Ascolani (Great Ring of the Villages of Ascoli Piceno)? It's certainly not just a 100km trail in 7 stages, to be explored on foot or by bike, through the municipalities of Ascoli Piceno, Venarotta, Acquasanta Terme, Comunanza, Roccafluvione, and Montegallo. It's not just the itinerary that passes through magnificent villages, enchanted forests, residents eager to share their stories, and then a dip in the sulfurous pools of Lu Vurghe; it's not just the hospitality at the mills, the late-night dances, the warmth and inspiration of the Apennine Sibyls, it's not just the sharing with other projects like Mulattiere Acquasanta: toil, love, and sweat all mingling. No, it's not just all of this. Above all, it's the voice of rebirth in a land like a greedy bud beneath the skin of winter. It's the magmatic flow of being that reaffirms itself and enjoys the wonder that is life. A simpler, more authentic, more genuine life.
A guide helps you orient yourself; this one, we might say, helps you "get lost." Have you ever found yourself lost in beauty, unwilling to escape? This might be the right time: Le Marche Experience, along with the Sibillini elves, "i Mazzamurelli," await you.
All you have to do is listen, and the voice of this land will speak to you. And when you're faced with such beauty: breathe!

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