in northern Tuscany, near the Emilia-Romagna border. We were dropped off just shy of 11 a.m. local time. We followed the well-marked Via Francigena route through olive farms, the dirt trail hugging the hillside.
The first of these four areas begins at the Cisa Pass, the crossing point from the Region of Emilia Romagna into the Region of Tuscany, north of Pontremoli in the Appennine mountains, and follows the valley of the Magra river down to Aulla and Sarzana. This area is called Lunigiana, aft...