CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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449 km from Sorrento to Sorrento, about 7 h 24 of riding. The stops in between: 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with, Ancient Capua, Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region and back through Ancient Capua. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
This part of the ride is 67 km of Sorrento → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with .
Sorrento sits on top of a cliff, and the whole town is aware of the drop. It lies on the northern side of the peninsula that separates the Bay of Naples from the Gulf of Salerno, about fifty metres above the water, with Vesuvius filling the view across the bay and the island of Capri visible from the headlands. Lemon groves, some of them netted against frost, cover the slopes behind the town, and the lemons are the foundation of limoncello, the sweet yellow liqueur that is sold in every shop. According to myth, this is the coast of the Sirens, who lured sailors onto the rocks with their singing.
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Sorrento is where the day begins. Next is 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
When Charles of Bourbon, king of Naples, decided to build a royal palace to rival Versailles, he did not do things by halves. The Reggia di Caserta, begun in 1752 to a design by Luigi Vanvitelli, is one of the largest royal palaces in the world, with some twelve hundred rooms, four inner courtyards, a theatre and a grand staircase that has appeared in films including Star Wars, where it stood in for the palace of Naboo. Behind it, a park stretches for three kilometres up the hillside, with fountains, statues and a long chain of pools and cascades fed by an aqueduct that Vanvitelli built specially, ending at a great waterfall at the top.
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18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with comes up 56 km in. Next is 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
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111 km in you reach 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with. Next is Ancient Capua.
Santa Maria Capua Vetere does not look like much as you ride in, a busy Campanian town of tangled traffic and apartment blocks, but under and around it lies ancient Capua, once one of the richest cities in Italy. The Via Appia passed straight through, and its great amphitheatre, second in size only to the Colosseum, still dominates the edge of town. This was where the gladiator schools trained their fighters, and it was from a school in Capua that Spartacus broke out in 73 BC with a band of fellow slaves, beginning the revolt that shook Rome for two years. The amphitheatre and a small gladiator museum nearby are the obvious stops, and the Mithraeum under the town, with its painted scene of the god slaying a bull, is one of the best preserved in Italy.
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Ancient Capua, about halfway. Next is Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region.
According to legend, the siren Leucosia threw herself into the sea here after failing to lure Odysseus to his doom, and her body became the little island off Punta Licosa. It is a fine story for a fine place. Punta Licosa is a low, wild headland on the coast of the Cilento, south of Salerno, covered in Mediterranean scrub, pines and holm oaks, with rocky coves and clear water, and it forms part of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, listed by UNESCO in 1998 as a cultural landscape. Behind it rises Monte Stella, the mountain that gives its name to the surrounding hills, dotted with small villages and terraced olive groves.
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Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region sits at 222 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ancient Capua.
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back through Ancient Capua comes up 278 km in. Next is back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
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333 km in you reach back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with. Next is back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
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back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with, late in the day. Next is Sorrento.
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The route ends here after 449 km.
Sorrento → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → Ancient Capua is 8 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ancient Capua → Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region is 147 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region → back through Ancient Capua is 147 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Ancient Capua → back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 8 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → Sorrento is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.