CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 419 km round trip from Perugia - roughly 6 h 17 in the saddle. On the way it passes The Clitunno Tempietto, Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, The basilica of San Salvatore and Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Perugia sits on a ridge above the Tiber valley, with a long history and a student population that keeps it young. The Etruscans founded it, and the Etruscan Arch still stands in the old walls, with Roman lettering added later. From the top of the hill you can see across Umbria to Assisi, Spello and, on a clear morning, the line of the Apennines. The city is large, about a hundred and twenty thousand people, so you have every service you need.
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Perugia is where the day begins. Next is The Clitunno Tempietto.
A few steps from the Via Flaminia, in the green flatland below Spoleto, there is a little building that scholars have argued about for centuries. The Tempietto del Clitunno looks like a miniature Roman temple, with a gabled front, columns and a carved cornice, but it is actually an early medieval church, made largely of reused Roman pieces and probably dating from somewhere between late antiquity and the time of the Lombards. It is among the group of Lombard sites in Italy that UNESCO listed in 2011, and part of its charm is that nobody is quite sure who built it or when.
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The Clitunno Tempietto comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
Paper made Fabriano. Since at least the thirteenth century, craftsmen in this inland town of the Marche have made paper, and they are credited with key innovations: the use of animal gelatine to size the sheets and, most famously, the watermark. Fabriano paper is still made here today, and the Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, in a former monastery, shows the old techniques with working demonstrations. Your banknotes may well have been printed on paper from this town.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. Next is The basilica of San Salvatore.
Spoleto is a hill town in Umbria with a past much longer than most people expect. It was a Roman colony, then the capital of a Lombard duchy, and the Lombards, who came into Italy in the sixth century, ruled a great swathe of the peninsula from here. The basilica of San Salvatore lies just outside the old centre, below the hill, and few churches in Italy are older, dating from the fourth or fifth century and reshaped in the early Middle Ages. Its pale, plain facade looks classical, with a triple doorway and carved frieze, because its builders reused Roman fragments and copied Roman forms.
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The basilica of San Salvatore, about halfway. Next is Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti.
Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-born composer who made his career in America, and in 1958 he decided that Spoleto, a small hill town in Umbria, would be the right home for a festival that brought together artists from both sides of the Atlantic. That is the origin of the Festival dei Due Mondi, the Festival of Two Worlds, which still fills the town with opera, theatre, dance and music every year in late June and July. The theatre that bears his name, the Teatro Nuovo, was built in the nineteenth century and is the main stage, a handsome horseshoe with gilt boxes and a painted ceiling.
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Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti sits at 225 km, about halfway. Next is back through The basilica of San Salvatore.
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back through The basilica of San Salvatore comes up about 212 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
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about 296 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. Next is back through The Clitunno Tempietto.
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back through The Clitunno Tempietto, late in the day. Next is Perugia.
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The route ends here after 419 km.
Perugia → The Clitunno Tempietto is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Clitunno Tempietto → Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → The basilica of San Salvatore is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The basilica of San Salvatore → back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → back through The Clitunno Tempietto is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Clitunno Tempietto → Perugia is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.