Like
the greater part of our peninsula, Tuscany is lands
which come out from the sea…
Its shaping began during the Apennine orogenesis: a
story of more than 250 millions of years. In those remote
times that geologists called with odd and imaginative
names, oceans were teeming with life and every kind
of organisms occupied the different environments from
the depths to the surface; once dead, their corpses
were gathering in the seabed. The remnants of the shells
and of the skeletons created layers of calcareous or
siliceous mud. Exactly these layers shaped the rocks
of the Apennines over millions of years.
The movements of the earth's crust, together with volcanism
and earthquakes, made the rest of the job, moving, compressing
and bending the seabeds: finally they came out during
a period that goes from the Palaeocene to the Miocene,
about 60 – 30 millions of years ago. During the
last stages of the orogenesis in the shallow waters
of a primordial ocean called Thetide, the cetaceans
evolved.
Exploring Tuscany through Water, Earth and Sky…
this is what I propose you. Discovering Nature, history,
and the traditions of a land which is young but ancient.
By parks or ancient villages, I will come with you along
the most secret and gratifying paths I know. In fact,
what is a Guide, if he doesn’t know the road and
how to go along it?
I am a qualified Guide, according to the LR Toscana
n54 2000 (member of the Associazione Guide Ambientali
della Toscana – Association of the Environmental
Guides of Tuscany).
On foot, by mountain bike, kayak or sailing boat, sea-watching
or snorkeling, going around farms or little medieval
villages…
…it is a world to be discovered, and travelling
by foot is surely the best way to do it. The slow rhytms,
the opening of the senses to Nature and letting it get
in us, striking up a real friendship with the people
met along the road… I will make you discover the
parks walking on tiptoe, and not only searching for
ancient tastes through the vineyards and the olive groves
in Lucchesia, but also in the Apuane Alps, in Garfagnana,
in the lake of Massaciuccoli, in the islands of the
Tuscan archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Travelling on foot, then, to appreciate the naturalistic,
experiential and therapeutic aspects, and knowing the
local people. Not only trekking then, but also a journey
in the Nature, with footpaths, crossings in sailing
boats, routes for mountain bikes or canoes, and swim
across bays with crystal-clear water, because we are
travellers, which means we are people who live in our
own steps and who feed on experience.
The possibilities which Tuscany offers us are several:
find them following the links here on the right.
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