Castelluccio: Flying like the gods

The Umbrian plateau in the Sibillini Alps with the once picturesque, but by the great earthquake in 2016 heavily destroyed village of Castelluccio is a flight paradise beyond compare. La zone presque entièrement déboisée est un immense terrain de jeu de parapente et offre même à l’automne encore beaucoup de chaleur, s’il n’ya que des vols de haut en bas à d’autres endroits.

During our travel time, Italy usually has high-pressure weather and the lows pass north. This means a lot of sunshine, good convection and in the mountains still fluffy clouds, which invites you to paragliding. The thermally active time can then be up to nine hours a day. The nights, on the other hand, are starry and bitterly cold, so that mist reliably forms in the valley of Castelluccio in windless autumn nights.