L'Italia dei Sentieri Frassati

This volume collects descriptions, with color images and hiking maps, of the 22 paths, one for each region of our country, dedicated to Frassati. They are not pilgrimages - although more than once they cross or overlap with those itineraries of faith that still make up the living history of the piety of our communities today - nor are they mere excursions, understood as a pure and simple walk in nature. For the significance of the naturalistic, historical and spiritual values of which one is fully aware when following them and for that invitation to rediscover, in this context, first of all oneself, in the relationship with others and with Creation, the Frassati Paths are paths , of body and mind, in the footsteps of those who preceded us in the history of places... and upwards. Their being online makes them, in fact, a single path - which began in 1996 in Campania and ended in 2012 in Alto Adige - through a plurality of paths that the Italian Alpine Club intended to name after its member Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925), the young man from Turin, proclaimed Blessed in 1990, who "loved the mountains and felt it as something great, a means of elevating the spirit, a gym where the soul and body are tempered". Rich in human, historical and naturalistic insights, this book recounts for the first time in its entirety the development of the CAI's “Sentieri Frassati” project, unanimously recognized as an educational project towards a global approach to the mountains as a gym that trains, a school that educates, temple that elevates.