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Hidden Italy Walking Tours Guided and self-guided walking tours to Italy since 1993, from the Dolomites and Lakes in the north

Hidden Italy is based in Sydney, Australia, with our operational manager based in Tuscany. We have booking agents in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

07/04/2025

The Turin and Val d’Aosta tour spends its last two nights in a family-run 5-star hotel in Entreves above Courmayeur. Fabulous.

The last day we get new Skyway cable up to Mont Blanc and, just for fun, we get a smaller cable car across the Mer de Glace (the Sea of Ice) to the French side above Chamonix.

We watched tiny strings of climbers leave from this ice cave to climb up to the peak of Europe’s highest mountain.

05/04/2025

I’m not anti-social but I love walking on my own. I think if I had some free I would very happily rewalk our Italian Riviera itinerary: 15 days walking along the Ligurian Coast, starting in Genova (a marvellous, bustling port) and finishing at the lovely Portovenere, within sight of Tuscany.

The orientation is pretty straightforward: leave Genova and put one foot after another and keep the blue Mediterranean Sea on your right until the coast finishes and you come Portovenere. Dreams…..

31/03/2025

“The tours get better and better each time and one wonders what can he do next? This is my 4th tour and they have never failed to deliver – I have been on other tours but never as enjoyable and satisfying as ‘Hidden Italy’, one is made to feel so welcome and it is like rejoining a lovely family.” Judy J,

Verona and the Dolomites guided tour (13 days/12 nights, Verona to Cortina d’Ampezzo)

28/03/2025

“We thought that the choice of hotels, the walks and the diversity of locations in Sardinia was fabulous. Hidden Italy has done it again! In particular, we want to thank Carmelina for adding so much to the trip. We believe she is a great asset to Simon and the company. We hope we meet her again!” Christine G

Sardinia guided tour (13days/12 nights; 2/5 to 14/5/25). One room still available on this tour!

24/03/2025

“All of the arrangements you made on my behalf were excellent. The instructions you provided were fine; the hotels, in their different ways, very suitable and provided good dining; and my luggage was moved very efficiently…. So full marks again to Hidden Italy.” Milton O, Tuscany 2 walking tour

Tuscany 2 Chianti self-guided walking tour (7 days/6 nights; Florence to Siena)

21/03/2025

Having spent five years living in Milano, I’m rather partial to a bit of Gorgonzola cheese and this is exactly how I like it best - ripe and stinky.

Gorgonzola is actually a town on the outskirts of Milano and I taught English there for a while. It was always fun to tell my friends back home that I was working in Gorgonzola.

Have a good weekend!

20/03/2025

Staying in a beautiful 4-star alpine hotel, the wonderful five night/six day Dolomites self-guided walk introduces you to some spectacular mountains in the world and some of the finest walking in Europe.

19/03/2025

Maratea? Never heard of it ? Well it’s one of the most beautiful coastal towns in southern Italy and our three nights there is one of the highlights of the ‘Campania and the Amalfi Coast’ guided tour. It includes a day off cruising the coast, swimming and eating fine food!

There is still one place available on this year’s tour: 21/5 to 2/6/25. Do yourself a favour!

17/03/2025

“Just a short note to let you know how much I enjoyed the FVG tour and how successful it was. Sarah is a wonderful guide and person and we all enjoyed her company and each other’s. Excellent accommodation and very good food. Loved all the walks. Cannot wait for Sicily and Sardinia in May!” Mary K, Trieste and Friuli guided tour.

Trieste and Friuli guided tour (13 days/12 nights; 19/9 to 01/10/25)

14/03/2025

This marvellous seven-day/six-night hike introduces you to the Valley del Lys, one of the most beautiful valleys in the European Alps, via the historic trails that have been connecting the mountain communities for centuries.

Following the course of the Lys River, your path will pass through mountain villages and hamlets; terraced landscapes shaped over the centuries by the inhabitants of these lands; enchanted beech and larch forests; and wild high-altitude lands, until it touches the glaciers of Monte Rosa, the queen of the Alps, whose dramatic peaks have attracted explorers, mountaineers and travellers from all over the world for centuries.

Transfers to and from the start of the hike and all breakfasts, lunches and dinners are included and the accommdation is fabulous!

13/03/2025

“Yes, the tour more than lived up to our expectations. We thoroughly enjoyed the challenge and the experience. The highlights included the views and mixing with people in the local areas that the normal tourist would not encounter. The walks were just right and your walking notes were fantastic!” Martin C, Amalfi Coast.

Amalfi Coast self-guided walk (6 days/5 nights, Ravello to Positano)

12/03/2025

“I would highly recommend this walking tour as it's peaceful and beautiful. What suprised most was how few other walkers we came across on the trails... Hopefully I'll be able to go with my husband in the future - I'm sure he would love the tranquilty, magnificent history and fascinating history!” Elizabeth W, Tuscany 1

Tuscany 1 self-guided walk (6 days/5 nights; Montalcino to Montepulciano)

11/03/2025

“My wife and I have just enjoyed the most wonderful two weeks walking in the Valle d'Aosta, staying in beautiful hotels, eating delicious meals, being looked by lovely guides, with Simon making sure everything ran smoothly. A very special time.” Duncan M

Turin and the Val d’Aosta guided tour (Turin to Courmayeur, 4/9 to 16/9/26)

10/03/2025

Trapizzino is a marvellous invention from the streets of Testaccio in Rome: stuffed focaccia, the ‘modern shape for a traditional food.’ Yum!

07/03/2025

Happy Friday.

06/03/2025

“The Sardinia Walk was a truly wonderful experience. The group was lovely. Carmelina is an exceptional guide, I would love to travel with her again. The accommodation was also good, and meals far surpassed my expectations. Congratulations to Hidden Italy for offering and delivering such a great tour. Jenny H, Sardinia.

Sardinia guided tour: 2 May to 14 May, 2025, places still available!

05/03/2025

Places are still available on the Hidden Italy ‘Venice and the Italian Lakes tour’ (5/9 to 17/9/25). It is classic tour that we have been running every September for nearly 20 years.

One of the many highlights is the four days that we spend in Intragna in Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland. It is gorgeous village surrounded by ancient forest with wonderful walking trail and some great food - including slow-cooked rabbit with polenta - yum!

04/03/2025

“Thanks so much, we're having a ball. It's very hot but the walking is superb, the food and wine is fantastic and the people and the scenery lovely so please pass on our thanks to Simon for all the really great arrangements and great walking notes.” David S, Alba and Le Langhe

Alba and Le Langhe self-guided tour (8 days/7 nights)

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PO Box 1091
Sydney, NSW
2010

Website

http://www.hiddenitaly.com.au/

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Trapizzino is a marvellous invention from the streets of Testaccio in Rome: stuffed focaccia, the ‘modern shape for a traditional food.’ Yum!

Amalfi Coast self-guide walk (6 days/5 nights)

Italo-Australia fusion: anchovies and butter on Jatz crackers. Yummo!

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Walking through the beech forest in the Monti Picentini in Campania (Naples and Campania tour, May 2025, places still available!).

This is a very special Friday: Gelato Fiore di Latte by Biraghi in the beautiful Piazza San Carlo in the heart of Turin. It’s the only ice cream they sell. It’s made from 3 ingredients: the best milk, cream and sugar. It’s made fresh every hour. It costs 2 euro and it is absolutely delicious. Yummmm!

This group was incorrigible. Despite two hours of steep climbing, they sailed on towards the Passo del Turlo (nearly 3000 mts asl) without missing a beat.

Stambecchi (Ibex) are the symbol of the Alps. They were almost hunted into extinction. At one stage in the 1940s there were less than three hundred creatures in all the Alps, mostly in the Grand Paradiso National Park in the Val d’Aosta. Now there are around 47,000 throughout the Alps. They are no longer hunted, so not as timid as they used to be. This young ibex was hanging around the chair lift that took us up to the rifugio where had lunch at a height of nearly three thousand metres. We were very lucky!

Every group above a certain altitude must take a qualified alpine guide. We always use guides from the Alagna Alpine Guides, who were founded in 1872 and are the second oldest in the Alps (after Courmayeur). We gad lunch at the Rifugio Mantova, which is 3600 mts asl. We got there a bit early so the guides fave us a demonstration of how you retrieve someone from a crevasse. Fortunately there was no need for us but two days later alpinists died in a crevasse on Mont Blanc.

Scottish longhorns. Cute cows and very convenient as, I believe, they can be left up here for the winter but some of the locals grumble about the introduction of these new critters and the impact they are having

It was a perfect morning for frogs. Matteo, one of our guides who has been on the Trails tours since day one nine years ago, is a master critter wrangler. We had just crossed the second pass for the day, with the third in front of us.

Setting out from our accommodation (another sanctuary). Big day today not so long (I think about 15 kms) but a big climb at the end: 1200 mts gain, 3 kms distance - pretty steep - up to a ‘rifugio’ (one of my favourites!). The gang did it with ease!

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Hidden Italy walking tours has been organising small walking groups and independent walkers in Italy (and now Australia and New Zealand) since 1993: fine food, boutique accommodation, exceptional walking...

Italy: Staying in 4-star boutique hotels, our nine, all-inclusive, two-week, guided walking tour explore the south (Sardinia, Campania, Sicily and Puglia) in the spring and the north (Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont, the Italian Lakes, the Dolomites and Fruili Venezia Giulia) in autumn. Click here for details. Our twenty-two, one-week self-guided walking tours explore all of Italy, from the Lakes in the north to Sicily in the south, and are available all year round. Click here for details.

Australasia: Given the difficulties with international travel at the moment, we have developed some Australasian-based, all-inclusive, one-week ‘gourmet escapes’: 4-star, boutique, accommodation; great walks; fine food and wine; good company, all with an Italian twist. The tours include: Wollombi and the Hunter Valley (NSW); King Valley and the Victorian Highlands (VIC); McLaren Vale and Adelaide Hills (SA); Adelaide and Flinders Range (SA); and Auckland and Waiheke Island (NZ) - and more to come! Click here for details.