The Gothic Line Walk is a proposal that aims to combine the pleasure of sporting activity in nature with the desire to learn more about a past that represents, albeit tragically, the melting pot of those behaviours, ideas and values ​​from which the Italian Constitution was born .
If on the one hand, therefore, there is the pleasure of walking in the countryside, on paths, mule tracks, carriageways (and short stretches of provincial roads with little traffic), on the other - taking up the invitation of Piero Calamandrei ("If you want go on pilgrimage to the place where our Constitution was born, go to the mountains where the partisans fell"), is to be considered precisely a secular pilgrimage, devoted to that civil religion which, unfortunately, has never been cultivated in Italy enough.
For this reason, the Way touches both the heart of the Gothic Line (where the fortifications were built and the Germans and Allies clashed), as well as the places of destruction and massacres and, last but not least, the places where women and men of the Resistance, often sacrificing their lives, they fought against the occupiers and – redeeming the shame of fascist Italy – they laid the moral foundations of republican Italy.
It cannot be forgotten: the democracy we enjoy today was born here, from the tenacity of those who resisted barbarism and contributed to the triumph of the values ​​of justice, freedom and equality.