Five days, 130 kilometres, over thirty municipalities crossed. Nature, culture, people, art, but also adventures, unexpected events, joys and hardships: all this tells the story of the new docufilm created by “Cammini d’Italia”, the largest Italian walking community, dedicated to the Via delle Sorelle, the path that unites Brescia to Bergamo.
The documentary of “Cammini d’Italia”
Cammini d’Italia has over 240 thousand fans on Facebook, 150 thousand on Instagram, one hundred thousand on Tik Tok, a website that collects hundreds of paths and records one and a half million visits a year and a dedicated app with over twenty thousand downloads. There were three of the team who walked the Via delle Sorelle at the end of March: one of the founders, Vincenzo Carusothe comedian and content creator Gianluca Arena and the videomaker and drone artist Fabrizio Billi.
From Brescia to Bergamo, they crossed parks, woods and villages, reached and “flew” peaks, chatted with local people, tasted local wines and foods. They slept in farms, former train stations, Art Nouveau villas and hostels, all part of the Via delle Sorelle reception network. During the journey, the team captured authentic images and stories, visiting the places and following the paths that represent the essence of the Way. The experience was fully enjoyed, with all its difficulties, including not always kind weather.
«Our way of describing the paths is real – says Caruso -, we experience them at 360 degrees, looking at them with the eyes of the walker. The Via delle Sorelle was a surprise. We didn’t expect to find so much nature and human hospitality between these two cities. Every day was a discovery, from the people we met to the adventures under variable weather, up to the typical products that made us savor the area. This docufilm is the result of an intensely lived experience that we want to share through our gaze.”
The Way of the Sisters
«Unexpected is the adjective that many walkers use to define La Via delle Sorelle in a positive sense and I think it is the one that fits best – he comments Alessia Marsigalia, project contact person -. This path was created to show a little-known face of Brescia and Bergamo which, in the collective imagination, are often linked only to industry and urbanisation. By crossing the hills that unite these two provinces, you can discover new views, nature, art and on foot you can do it in an immersive and sustainable way. Although the weather hasn’t always been friendly, the days spent with the guys from Cammini d’Italia were very beautiful and fun.”
The docufilm, promoted in collaboration with Visit Bergamo, Visit Brescia and Slow Ride Italy, in 45 minutes recounts the team’s experience along the six stages of the journey traveled in five days, including stories and anecdotes, spectacular drone flights and real experience . The documentary film can be seen on the Cammini d’Italia YouTube channel and on the Via delle Sorelle website.
