Guided hiking trips

"Trail at the frontier": Witnesses of goog relations with our neighbours...

Saddlebacks are the lowest mountain ranges and, therefore, are easier to conquer.  Good relations with the neighbours from the other side of the main Alpine mountain range, bear witness to a moving past for the 'trails at the frontier':  mountain farmers, hiking traders, smugglers and poachers used the paths very often.  Relations between 'them and us', refering to the Ziller Valley and the South Tryolean Ahrn Valley inhabitants, were not a rare occasion.  Today, these old relationships have been revived.

Via Alpina
On the initiative of the French association La Grande Traversée des Alpes, institutions, associations and professional organisations in these eight countries have been working to create the Via Alpina, the first recognised walking trail described in multilingual documentation linking Trieste on the Adriatic Coast to Monaco and the Mediterranean.

www.via-alpina.org