The territory of Scheggino offers many opportunities for walking surrounded by the unique landscape of the Nera river.

The road of Valcasana is an itinerary of great environmental interest, which arrives at the honeycomb castles of Gavelli and Caso, going through the area of Mount Coscerno. Vegetation consists of a compact wood of hornbeam, flowering ash, downy oak, sycamore and beech trees with remarkable frequency of tall trees growing in places where is difficult even walk because of the sloping of the ground.

Going up to the “Piano delle Melette” the wood becomes more hygrofilous with willow, poplar and alder. Between a bottleneck and the “Piano delle Melette” grows a grove of downy oak trees, mixed with poplars and willows. The last kilometer of Valcasana road shows a mountain-mediterranean vegetation with oak, Aleppo pine, downy oak and boxwood; Aleppo pine prevails on the right side. Here, carefully staring at the sky, one can see the golden eagle, fierce inhabitant of these mountains, while, turning their gaze to the ground the luckiest ones can find the truffle, also known as the black diamond of Scheggino.

Walking in the environment of Scheggino helps to retrace the historic paths of Valnerina.

Once, the path of transhumance passed through Valcasana gate, as well as a section of the “Iron Road", used  for transporting the materials of mines and of ironworks from Monteleone of Spoleto to Scheggino through Caso and Gavelli villages. In 1635 was built a foundry in Scheggino, under Pope Urban VIII and thanks to the good offices of his secretary, Cardinal Fausto Poli from Usigni. Sisinio Poli, Cardinal`s nephew, is the one who made build the wonderful Villa Poli, with a imposing facade, bordered by two towers, then turned into pigeon towers and flanked by two side wings enclosing a large courtyard.

The path going down from Scheggino to Ceselli allow to remind a peculiar historical episode: the flight of Pius IX from Spoleto. In 1831 the city of Spoleto rebelled against the Papal States, forcing the bishop, Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti, who later became Pope Pius IX, to flee from the city on foot and to stop at Osteria di Ceselli. From here, thanks to the help of the innkeeper`s son, Marcello Mercantini and of a donkey carrying him, the future Pope went safely to Leonessa, today in Lazio, but part of the Kingdom of Naples at that time.