CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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9 ordered checkpoints; recorded start 41.832, 13.729.
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A 520 km round trip from Pescasseroli - roughly 10 h 24 in the saddle. The stops in between: The Via Appia in Fundi, Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing, The Via Appia at the Itri Pass and The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S. 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.
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 is where the day begins. 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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The Via Appia in Fundi comes up 52 km in. Next is Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing.
Where the Via Appia crossed the River Garigliano, the Romans built a town, and armies have been fighting over the crossing ever since. Minturnae was founded as a Roman colony in the late fourth century BC on the border between Lazio and Campania, and its ruins lie beside the river near the modern town of Minturno: a theatre still used for summer performances, a forum, temples, baths, a stretch of the Via Appia's paving and the arches of an aqueduct striding across the fields. A small museum displays statues and finds from the site.
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103 km in you reach Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing. 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, about halfway. Next is The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S.
The Via Appia, the Queen of Roads, ran from Rome to Brindisi, and in 2024 UNESCO inscribed long stretches of it as a single World Heritage site. Near Mondragone, on the coast of northern Campania, the road passes the site of Sinuessa, a Roman colony that once guarded the route where it reached the sea after crossing the coastal plains from the north. Not a great deal stands above ground today, so this is a place where you read the landscape rather than tour the ruins.
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The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S sits at 206 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass.
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back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass comes up 258 km in. Next is back through Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing.
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309 km in you reach back through Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing. Next is back through The Via Appia in Fundi.
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back through The Via Appia in Fundi, late in the day. Next is Abruzzo.
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The route ends here after 520 km.
Abruzzo → The Via Appia in Fundi is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Via Appia in Fundi → Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing → The Via Appia at the Itri Pass is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia at the Itri Pass → The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S → back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass → back through Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing → back through The Via Appia in Fundi is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia in Fundi → Abruzzo is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.