The Salt Roads
This network of mule tracks and footpaths, stretching the full length of the Ligurian coast, has its origins in the Bronze Age.
With salt one of the most precious commodities, traders would brave the difficulties of the lawless, mountainous hinterland, to bring their precious cargo to the inland markets, where their fortune could be made.
The trade was very strong in the middle ages, and indeed it was only with the advent of the motor car and the railway that the trade has declined.
MTW clients hike in the foosteps of these brave traders and their pack animals on the Salt Roads to the Riviera self-guided hike.