For forty days he defied water, sun and wind to cover the 790 km of the French Way on foot 
Santiago de Compostela, capital of the Galicia region in northwestern Spain.
The author of the undertaking which began on 17 August and ended in early October was the sixty-four year old Pierluigi Picchetti, from Arena-Metato, married with two sons, a former informant and former manager of a well-known pharmaceutical company.
The 34-stage route starts from the city of Saint-Jean Pied de Port, on the French side of the Pyrenees and crosses the regions of Navarre, La Rioja, Castile, Léon, to end in Santiago, in whose cathedral the mortal remains of the apostle St. James.
The route winds mainly on the flat and the highest stage, and one of the most suggestive, is that of O Cebreiro in Galicia with its 1,293 metres. It is therefore a path of great historical and landscape interest.
Picchetti began his professional career in the pharmaceutical industry in 1983, in Medical-Scientific Information and then in Market Access, covering increasing roles over time in various companies in the sector: SERONO FARMACEUTICI and ASTRAZENECA. He joined PFIZER in 2003 as Hospital Area Manager within the Anti-Infectives BU.
Subsequently, he assumed the role of National Account Manager Transplant. From 1 January 2016 he held the role of Regional Sales Lead Rare Disease
After 18 years and 9 months at Pfizer, he decided to terminate his employment by mutual consent.
Interviewed by Nation, Pisa edition, to the question which was the most beautiful thing left, he replied: "An inner peace and a perception of life never experienced".
