The Modenese territory - that stretches between the plain and the Apennines and is limited by the rivers Secchia and Panaro - witnessed in the middle ages the passage of kings and merchants, armies and pilgrims. The marks they left are in the cart-tracks, the abbeys and the hospitals, the hamlets and the shrines, remarkable traces of an age in which the journey had, above all, a religious and spiritual meaning. The Matilda Path, The Bibulca Route and The Romea Nonantolana Route - important lines of communication in the Middle Ages - can still be trodden by those who, cycling or walking, want to discover and understand the spirit of our ancestors.