Rieti → Greccio

Stage information

Difficulty: challenging. Difficulty recorded in the catalogue.

Out of Rieti along the Velino and up through the olive terraces to the Santuario di Fonte Colombo, the friary in the holm oaks where Saint Francis dictated his Rule. Over the ridge to Contigliano, then the long climb past the village of Greccio to the cliff-side Santuario di Greccio, home of the first nativity scene. About 24 km.