‘Open Monasteries’ reveals Emilia as a land of tranquillity

The gentle dripping of a drop of water in the dim light of a thousand-year-old crypt, or the rustling of a cassock amongst the columns of an ancient cloister, mark the boundary with the rhythms of modern life. Emilia-Romagna offers an itinerary of quiet spaces, stone and nature, where travel rediscovers its most intimate and contemplative dimension. It is the land of silent travel, a nomadism of the soul that finds its ideal habitat here amongst hermitages clinging to the rock, Cistercian abbeys and woods where mobile phone reception fades away to make way for the voice of the wind. A virtual itinerary which, in autumn, is bathed in its most mystical light, offering contemporary travellers the key to a lost tranquillity.