Nature
Reconnecting with nature does not mean looking for something far away. Sometimes it is enough to step outside the walls of home, let the eye meet a horizon, feel the ground change beneath your feet. Nature brings things back into proportion: the pace, the silence, the breath, the good fatigue of the body.
Nature, around Scheggino, takes different forms. There are days that call for good shoes and steady breath. Others seem made for a bicycle ride, for moving at the patient rhythm of a horse, for water gathering speed beneath the raft.
The Nature experiences bring together these ways of being outdoors. Each proposal allows you to discover Umbria from a different perspective, with the body even before the gaze.
Would you like to organize an experience in nature during your stay? We will help you choose the activity best suited to your time, the season, and the way you wish to explore the territory.
The Canoe Experience allows you to explore the Nera River up close, with an individual canoe route immersed in nature. The activity lasts about 3 hours, with a river descent of about 2 hours and 15 minutes over a total of 5 km.
It is suitable from the age of 14, with a minimum of 2 participants. Equipment is provided on site and includes a neoprene wetsuit, water jacket, booties, life jacket, and helmet. We recommend bringing a swimsuit and towel.
Trekking is the most essential experience: you set out on foot, choose the trail, and continue according to your own rhythm.
The Menotre Waterfalls offer a fresh, green route, where the walk stays close to the water and to the small cascades hidden among the rocks. Monti Sibillini National Park, instead, opens onto broader scenery: heights, meadows, ridges, mountain villages, and trails that change greatly with the season.
It is a way of exploring that calls for suitable shoes and attention to detail, because sometimes the most beautiful part is not the point of arrival, but a bend, a clearing, the sudden sound of a stream.
With rafting, the river becomes the center of the experience. You enter the water, listen to the guide’s instructions, paddle together, and learn to follow the current in a controlled way. It is the most energetic of the Nature experiences.
The route lasts about 2 hours and includes a short briefing with the guide, river-swimming practice against the current, and a descent of about 1 hour and 15 minutes, for a total distance of 5 km. The activity is suitable for everyone from the age of 3 and up, and minors must be accompanied by an adult. Equipment is provided on site and includes a neoprene wetsuit, water jacket, booties, life jacket, and helmet. We recommend bringing a swimsuit and towel.
The e-bike belongs neither to the slowness of walking nor to the speed of the car. It stays in between: it allows you to cover more ground, face climbs, reach more distant views, while still leaving the air, the elevation, the changing ground on your skin.
Around the Valnerina, cycling becomes an agile way to cross secondary roads, small towns, and panoramic stretches. You can move with energy, or stop often, following what the day suggests.
It is the right experience for those who want to move more without losing the direct relationship with the landscape. The bike does not separate, but exposes: to the light, to the wind, to the smells of the countryside, to the satisfaction of arriving a little farther on your own legs.
In the saddle of a horse, the body must find a new balance, the gaze change height. The trail is no longer only a direction, but a continuous relationship between the rider, the animal, and everything around them.
The horseback ride leads into a wilder form of nature. You hear the hooves on the ground, the animal’s breathing, the smell of grass and earth. It is an experience suited to those who wish to approach the Umbrian countryside in a different way, letting the horse’s pace give order to time.
This itinerary brings together three places close to one another, linked by the presence of water. It begins in Rasiglia, the village crossed by canals and springs, and continues toward the Menotre Waterfalls, where the river descends among rocks, vegetation, and small cascades.
With more time, the route can reach the Hermitage of Santa Maria Giacobbe, set into the rock above Pale. The boat trip lasts around 45 minutes, suited to those who wish to discover a nature that is less monumental and closer at hand.
