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 399 km round trip from Pescasseroli - roughly 8 h 32 in the saddle. The stops in between: The Via Appia in Fundi, Appia. Regina Viarum, The Via Appia in Rome and back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 50 km on.
South of the Alban Hills, the Via Appia drops onto the Pontine plain and runs dead straight for mile after mile, as if the Roman engineers had laid it with a ruler, which in a sense they did. This was the Regina Viarum, the queen of roads, begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus to link Rome with Capua, and later extended to Brindisi. Here, near Sezze Scalo and Latina, the road crossed the Pontine Marshes, a malarial swamp that defeated would-be drainers from the Romans to the popes. Travellers sometimes took a canal boat alongside the road instead, and the poet Horace complained about the mosquitoes and the frogs keeping him awake on that very journey.
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about 131 km into the recorded legs you reach Via Appia. Regina Viarum.
The Romans called it the queen of roads, and in 2024 UNESCO agreed, listing the Via Appia from Rome to Brindisi as a World Heritage site. Begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, it was the first great Roman road, built to move armies south toward Campania and later extended to the port of Brindisi, the gateway to Greece and the East.
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Via Appia. Regina Viarum, about halfway. Next is The Via Appia in Rome.
Rome's regina viarum, the queen of roads, leaves the city through the Porta San Sebastiano and heads south-east toward Capua and eventually Brindisi. It was begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, and the first miles out of Rome are now protected within the Parco Regionale dell'Appia Antica. The stretch of the old road is lined with tombs, ruins of villas, catacombs and umbrella pines, and the original paving stones, huge polygonal basalt blocks, still surface parts of it.
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The Via Appia in Rome sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 50 km on.
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back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum comes up about 228 km into the recorded legs.
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about 266 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum. 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 399 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 → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → The Via Appia in Rome is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia in Rome → back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 38 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 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia in Fundi → Abruzzo is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.