Travel may seem like it's all about doing the most these days — hitting up all the sites and recommended restaurants, posting personal photo essays on social media with day-by-day recaps of all the things you did and saw — but Italy is putting the leisure back in vacation time by celebrating a slow travel.

The Italian government has dubbed 2019 the nation's year of slow tourism, that is, a time for a new generation of traveler's to step back, slow down, and enjoy all that Italy has to offer without bending over their smartphones the entire trip. One great way to take advantage of slow travel: Pilgrimage Paths. Dating back to the Middle Ages, walking trails were a popular way for religious pilgrims to venture through Italy via historic Roman roads to reach Rome, the Christian capital at the time.