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Roadbook S1 Family Hike & Trail \u2014 the course, trail by trail<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

14.8 km from PortoPiccolo, between the Sentiero Rilke and the Duino Karst: every CAI trail and every connecting section used by the race, in the order you come to them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The S1 Family Hike & Trail starts at PortoPiccolo and returns there after 14.8 km, on the shortest of the loops that take on the Duino Karst. This page describes the course in the order you come to it: the CAI trails, the routes it shares for a stretch and the race\u2019s own connecting sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From PortoPiccolo to the Sentiero Rilke<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The S1 Family Hike & Trail also starts from the Bora Village at PortoPiccolo, with the same opening as the S1 Half Trail and the S1 Borderless Trail, but with no hurry at all. The start is at \u2018Le botteghe\u2019, inside PortoPiccolo, and the course drops down Strada della baia and Strada di PortoPiccolo to Sistiana Bay; from the bay a flight of stairs climbs up to the road, and the S.P. 3, on tarmac, leads to Piazza Barone Goffredo de Banfield, where the course joins the Sentiero Rilke. It is about 2.1 km, almost all on road. On the Sentiero Rilke, on the clearest days, the view reaches all the way to Istria: this is the picture you take home with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From here the course follows CAI 001, partly shared with the Alpe Adria Trail and, along the cliffs, with the Sentiero Rilke. These are separate routes that happen to run on the same ground here: sharing a stretch does not make them the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sentiero Rilke runs for just over two kilometres, suspended between sky and sea, along the Duino Cliffs Nature Reserve, between Sistiana\/Sesljan and Duino\/Devin. It was here, in the winter of 1912, that Rainer Maria Rilke \u2014 a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis at Duino Castle \u2014 heard the first words of the Duino Elegies carried to him on the wind: \u2018Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the hierarchies of angels?\u2019 It is from these cliffs, too, that the Corsa della Bora takes its motto: \u2018Being here is glorious\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duino and the Sentiero del Mitreo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The course follows the Sentiero Rilke as far as Duino\/Devin and passes through the old village in front of Duino Castle, the residence of the princes of Thurn und Taxis, where, according to tradition, Dante was a guest before Rilke; beside the ruins of the old castle you can make out the White Lady, the rock shaped like a veiled woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Duino the course takes CAI 001a \u2014 Sentiero del Mitreo. At the Mithraeum Cave, also known as the Mithraeum of Duino, it leaves CAI 001a and picks up CAI 033. Shortly afterwards comes the second race fork: here the S1 Family Hike & Trail turns off onto its own shorter loop, while the S1 Half Trail, S1 Borderless Trail, S1 TransKarst Ultra and S1 Bora Ultra carry on along CAI 033.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The short loop: from the forest tracks to CAI 008<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Just after the Mithraeum of Duino the S1 Family Hike & Trail leaves CAI 033. It follows two forest tracks until it meets CAI 008, then continues towards the protohistoric settlement of Duino Stazione, one of the hillforts that dot the Duino Karst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the way to get a feel for the real Karst without the physical toll of a demanding climb: the Family does not take on the Monte Ermada loop covered by the longer distances, only its lower slopes, with short ups and downs among pines and clearings and the Gulf appearing unexpectedly through the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The return: Visogliano, Sistiana and PortoPiccolo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The course then picks up CAI 033 again towards the Visogliano\/Vi\u017eovlje sports ground. This is also where the S1 Half Trail rejoins after the Ermada loop: from this point, shortly after the stretch that passes close to the Grotta Alexander, the two races share the same course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Visogliano the course passes through Villaggio Verde Tre, drops down to Sistiana and heads back to PortoPiccolo: the last kilometres are a smooth, runnable descent towards the sea, all the way to the Bora Village. Same finish line, same party and same medal as the day\u2019s other races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technical sequence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
PortoPiccolo roads, stairs and S.P. 3 \u2192 CAI 001 \/ Sentiero Rilke \u2192 CAI 001a \u2192 CAI 033 \u2192 forest tracks \u2192 CAI 008 \u2192 CAI 033 \u2192 non-CAI final stretch \u2192 PortoPiccolo<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The race forks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The distances starting from PortoPiccolo split at precise points, checked against the official 2027 tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n