THE RELIGIOUS PATHS OF CAMMINI APERTI 2025
After last year’s success, Cammini Aperti returns with a special focus on the Jubilee 2025, in anticipation of the Franciscan centenaries in 2026. At the center of this edition are the spiritual paths par excellence, transformative experiences that unite faith, history and nature:
✔️ Ways and Ways of Francis
✔️ Lauretan Ways and Paths
✔️ Cammino di San Benedetto
This initiative is part of the project promoted by the Ministry of Tourism-FSC Funds of the Ministry of Culture, with the aim of promoting the countless small wonders that make the Belpaese a unique place. Thanks to the collaboration between the regions of Umbria (lead partner), Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Marche and Tuscany, the project aims to valorize in a unified way the Ways dedicated to St. Francis, St. Benedict and the Vie Lauretane, inserting them in a system of long-distance paths that returns the liveliness and peculiarities of the territories crossed.
The 2025 edition of Open Paths will be an opportunity to discover the transformative value of walking, an experience that changes perspective and leaves a profound mark on those who experience it.
Ways and Ways of Francis
It starts from the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence in Tuscany and from Rimini in Emilia-Romagna, passing through San Leo and on its way to the Franciscan sanctuary of La Verna. The route then travels through the regions of Umbria and Lazio, retracing the landmarks of the life of St. Francis, the patron saint of Italy, until reaching the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. It then continues to the Franciscan shrines in the Holy Valley of Rieti, to Assisi and on to St. Peter‘s Basilica in Rome.
Via di Francesco in Tuscany
Departure: Florence
Arrival: La Verna
Length: 96.3 km
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Saint Francis’ Way from Rimini to La Verna
Departure: Rimini
Arrival: La Verna
Length: 110 km
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Via di Francesco – North Street
Departure: La Verna
Arrival: Assisi
Length: 140 km
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Via di Francesco – Southern Way
Departure: Assisi
Arrival: Rome
Length: 247 km
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Ways and Paths of Lauretans
A path with a very ancient Marian tradition, it joins three of Italy’s most important places of worship: the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto in the Marche region, the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi in Umbria and the Franciscan convent of the Celle di Cortona in Tuscany until it reaches Siena.
La Via Lauretana
Departure: Assisi
Arrival: Loreto
Length: 150 km
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The Via Lauretana in Tuscany
Departure: Siena
Arrival: Cortona
Length: 114 km
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Cammino di San Benedetto
Amid medieval villages and historic abbeys with strong spirituality, it runs through Umbria and Lazio, joining the main Benedictine abbeys of Norcia, Subiaco, Casamari and Montecassino and the many places linked to the life of St. Benedict, considered the “Patron Saint of Europe.”
Cammino di San Benedetto
Departure: Norcia
Arrival: Cassino
Length: 300 km
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Open Walks 2025
After last year’s success, Open Paths returns with a special focus on the Jubilee 2025, in anticipation of the Franciscan centenaries in 2026. At the center of this edition are the spiritual paths par excellence, transformative experiences that unite faith, history and nature.
