Roberto Lombardo

I was born in the beautiful city of Trieste on a sunny, Bora-swept winter day in 1982. Raised in a bilingual Italian–Slovenian family, I proudly consider myself multicultural, a child of the extraordinary intertwining of peoples and historical events that define this area.

Since I was a child, I loved wandering with my imagination across maps in search of places and adventures. Once I was old enough, I began traveling independently, and I’ve never stopped since.

I’ve also never stopped exploring the surroundings of my home, falling deeply in love with the mountains of Slovenia and its green forests. Beautiful in every season, Slovenia has always been the ideal destination for outdoor excursions, so close to Trieste that you can end a day in the mountains with a sunset swim in the Adriatic Sea.

Over the years came the desire to study what I was seeing, to better understand the people and places I encountered. I earned a degree in anthropology, focusing my research on the traces tourism leaves behind in less developed countries. Traveling through these places, I rediscovered the importance of traditions, folk culture, and the value of time—the real kind, marked by the slow rhythm of nature.

While studying meaningful sustainable tourism projects, I ended up living for a while with farmers on the Ethiopian highlands. In those mountains, I had the opportunity to help create new routes to sustainably enhance the human and natural heritage of the area. I became convinced that I could do the same on the highlands of my own home, promoting a way of traveling that combines the intuitive wisdom of local know-how with the curiosity of a wanderer who never wants to stop searching.