Lombardia, trekking sulle vie storiche vol.5

12 ancient routes, even lasting several days, in the provinces of Sondrio, Lecco, Bergamo and Brescia. Historic roads were not only created for the need to transport foodstuffs and raw materials from one territory to another. Nor to allow the passage of travelers and armies. The centuries-old history of communities in the Alpine valleys is marked by the need to emerge from isolation. It is due to these populations, to the resistance and stubbornness with which season after season they have kept the old routes efficient, repairing the damage of landslides and collapses, fixing them, widening them, that from modest paths they have become roads with which to communicate with other valleys , with the plain, with the city. Often faint traces, perhaps originally left by prehistoric hunters, have become paths along which history has passed. The one with a capital S, so to speak.