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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From Civitella Alfedena it runs 374 km to Civitella Alfedena; allow about 7 h 36 of riding. It goes by way of Abruzzo, The Via Appia in Fundi, Appia. Regina Viarum and The Via Appia at the Itri Pass. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Bears are the thing everyone asks about in Abruzzo, and the honest answer is that you probably will not see one. The Marsican brown bear, a small, isolated population, survives in the mountains of the Apennines, and the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, created in 1923, is its stronghold. The park also protects wolves, chamois and deer, and a lot of ancient beech forest, some of which is part of a group of European beech forests listed by UNESCO. Seeing a bear is rare, but a roadside sign and a bear-shaped warning tell you where you are.
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Abruzzo is where the day begins. Next is Abruzzo.
Abruzzo is the part of Italy that most Italians forget to brag about, which is probably why it is still so wild. It protects one of the last populations of the Marsican brown bear, a distinct subspecies that survives in the low hundreds at best, as well as wolves, chamois and red deer. You are unlikely to see a bear from the saddle, but the signs on the road warning of animal crossings are not decoration.
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Abruzzo comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Via Appia in Fundi.
The Via Appia, the queen of Roman roads, runs straight through the middle of Fondi, and the town's grid of streets still follows the plan of the Roman settlement it once was. Built from 312 BC to link Rome with Capua and later extended to Brindisi, the Appia crossed the coastal plain here, between the mountains and the sea, and Fondi grew up around it as a stopping place. In the historic centre, the main street follows the line of the ancient road, and stretches of the Roman walls survive, built of huge polygonal blocks. The Via Appia was recognised by UNESCO in 2024 as a World Heritage Site, with Fondi as one of its components.
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about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach The Via Appia in Fundi. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 34 km on.
Terracina is the point where the Via Appia, the queen of roads, meets the sea after its long straight run from Rome across the Pontine plain. The Romans built the road in 312 BC under the censor Appius Claudius, and for its time it was a marvel: paved, drained and as straight as engineering allowed, linking Rome to Capua and later to Brindisi. The stretch through the Pontine marshes was notorious for mosquitoes and malaria, and travellers often took a canal boat alongside the road instead, as the poet Horace describes in one of his satires.
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Via Appia. Regina Viarum, about halfway. Next is The Via Appia at the Itri Pass.
Ancient Rome's first great highway, the Via Appia, was begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, and it ran from Rome south to Capua and later on to Brindisi on the Adriatic. At Itri, in the hills behind the Gulf of Gaeta, it squeezes through a narrow pass between the Monti Aurunci and the sea, and the road still crosses the same gap today. A stretch of the old paved line survives near the pass, with its big, rounded basalt blocks, though you will need to get off the main road and look carefully to find it.
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The Via Appia at the Itri Pass sits at 136 km, about halfway. Next is back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 34 km on.
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back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum comes up about 216 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through The Via Appia in Fundi.
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about 238 km into the recorded legs you reach back through The Via Appia in Fundi. Next is back through Abruzzo.
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back through Abruzzo, late in the day.
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The route ends here after 374 km.
Abruzzo → Abruzzo is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abruzzo → The Via Appia in Fundi is 120 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia in Fundi → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → The Via Appia at the Itri Pass is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia at the Itri Pass → back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through The Via Appia in Fundi is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia in Fundi → back through Abruzzo is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abruzzo → Abruzzo is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.