FROM SEA TO ALPS
Unsupported Bikepacking Adventure

ITALY UNITE

Wild Trail

1 June 2024
From Santa Maria di Leuca (Puglia) to Piccolo San Bernardo (Valle d'Aosta)

Letter of Intent

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PROJECT
AN IDEA COMES FROM A NEED, A LACK, A DREAM

IUWT

No registration
No time limit
No support
No organization
A letter of intent is enough to have the track
If you want a FREE DONATION will suffice, to keep the track active and usable.

Italy Unite Wild Trail is all of this. An idea that turns into reality, keeping the intention intact. A lot of passion, a single goal, to make a fixed path that crosses Italy on dirt roads , bringing to mind the TOUR DIVIDE and the pioneering spirit that has distinguished it since the first edition. 2000 km and 35.000 mt elevation gain of tracks

TRACK

Crossed places (details )

Puglia, Basilicata, Campania, Molise, Abruzzo, Lazio, Umbria, Toscana, Liguria, Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta

Natural parks (details )

Terra delle Gravine Regional Park, the Materan Way, Alta Murgia Park, Campochiaro Nature Reserve, Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park, Maiella National Park, Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, Lakes Nature Reserve Lungo and Ripasottile, Calanchi di Civita di Bagnoregio, Lake Bolsena, Pigelleto Nature Reserve, Monte Amiata, Monte Labbro Nature Reserve, Castiglion del Bosco, white roads of Val d'Orcia, Cerbaie and Fucecchio Reserve, National Park of Cinque Terre and Alta Via dei Monti Liguri, Capanne di Marcarolo Natural Park, Gran Paradiso Park and part of the Mont Blanc Tour.

Mountains and passes (details )

Serra Pantanella (1687 mt), Campo Imperatore (1800 mt), Rocca Calascio (1460 mt), Canyon dello Scoppaturo (1567 mt), Monte Amiata (1738 mt), Monte Labbro (1000 mt), Colle del Nivolet (2641 mt), Colle San Carlo (1.986 mt).

Villages (details )

Santa Maria di Leuca, Matera, Gravina di Puglia, Ascoli Procenio, Isernia, Barrea (lake Barrea), Sant’Eufemia della Majella, Caramanico Terme, Campo Imperatore, Canyon dello Scoppaturo, Rocca Calascio, Rieti, Narni, Bolsena, Santa Fiora, Castel del Piano, Montalcino, Castiglion del Bosco, Radi e Murlo, Forte dei Marmi, Sestri Levante, Acquiterme, Aosta e Piccolo San Bernardo.

PATH

A LONG JOURNEY, AN ADVENTURE, A CHALLENGE, WHICH UNITES ITALY, FROM THE SOUTH OF PUGLIA TO THE NORTH OF THE AOSTA VALLEY, WITH 11 REGIONS, COUNTLESS VILLAGES AND SMALL TOWNS CROSSED, PLACES WHERE IT WILL SEEM THAT TIME HAS STOPPED. IN CONTEXTS UNIQUE THAT WILL IMMERSE YOU IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF A NATION WITH ITS MANY SHADES, MADE OF LANDSCAPES AND CHARACTERS. AN EPIC EXPERIENCE, THE DREAM OF A LIFETIME, HUNDREDS OF KILOMETERS OF DIRT ROADS, SECONDARY, UNKNOWN, PLACES TO DISCOVER IN THEIR NATURAL BEAUTY. DIRT ROADS, MILITARY ROADS, FARM ROADS THAT CROSS FIELDS, HILLS, WOODS, NATIONAL PARKS AND UNESCO HERITAGE COUNTRIES. ITALY UNITE WILL TEST THOSE WHO HAVE THE COURAGE TO FACE IT AS A CHALLENGE TO THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RESISTANCE, THOSE WHO HAVE THE DESIRE AND CURIOSITY TO DISCOVER A NATION IN ALL ITS PECULIARITIES, BUT ALSO THOSE WHO ARE PLANNING THE ADVENTURE OF THEIR LIFE! A TIME SCHEDULE DESIGNED ACCORDING TO EVERYONE'S ABILITY TO MANAGE THE EVENTS THAT WILL ARISE.

ITALY UNITE

Wild Trail

Begin and end route on Google MAP

Route begin
Santa Maria di Leuca (Puglia)
Route end
Piccolo San Bernardo (Valle d'Aosta)
Crossed places
Puglia, Basilicata, Campania, Molise, Abruzzo, Lazio, Umbria, Toscana, Liguria, Piemonte e Valle d'Aosta

Category Free bicycle adventure
Length 2000 KM
Difference in altitude 35.000 DSL
Dirt road 60 %
Asphalt and flagstone 40 %
Top Coppi 2.759 mt (Above the hill of Nivolet)

IDEATORI

Juri
XCOUNTRY ATHLETE COMPLETES RACES SUCH AS DOLOMITI SUPERBIKE AND SELLARONDA HERO. ULTRA ENDURANCE IN MTB HAVING COMPLETED SEVERAL TIMES ROUTES SUCH AS VENETOGRAVEL, TRACK6000, WHITE TRAIL, MARCHE TRAIL, LAKIVATRAIL, TUSCANYTRAIL AND ITALYDIVIDE.

Matteo
PASSIONATE ABOUT ULTRA ENDURANCE ON A BIKE. TAKE PART IN NUMEROUS TRAILS SUCH AS: NATURAID SARDEGNA EXTREME EXPLORER, TUSCANY TRAIL, RALLY TORINO NIZZA, 20 K ULTRA TRAIL, TOUR BLANC RANDO, TOUR OF THE ALPS, 6 TIMES THE MONT BLANC TOUR, TOUR DIVIDE.

Fabio
PASSIONATE LONG TRAIL CYCLIST, HE REACHES PORTUGAL FROM HOME AND BACK COVERING 4200KM, TAKE PART IN SEVERAL TRAIL THROUGHOUT ITALY, PARTICIPATES IN MULTIPLE EDITIONS OF THE 24 HOURS OF FINALE LIGURE, ORGANIZES THE LIGURIA BIKE TRAIL, AN EVENT ESTABLISHED IN BIKEPACKING LANDSCAPE.

Those who embark on this adventure will be accompanied by their emotions, efforts, needs, no one upon arrival, no one upon departure. The feelings and situations that arise will be the only reward they will receive for fulfilling the personal goal set in mind, in reaching their limits. IUWT is not an event, it is not organized, it is not a competition, and it is not a cycling tour. IUWT is a path conceived and tested by some friends, who will find themselves walking it again in Santa Maria di Leuca (LE), hoping that it will take place annually in the last week of June, as already happens in the USA with the Tour Divide. The journey is first of all with oneself !!!!!!