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 340 km to Civitella Alfedena; allow about 6 h 32 of riding. It goes by way of Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing, The Via Appia at the Itri Pass, Appia. Regina Viarum and back through 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 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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Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing comes up about 110 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach The Via Appia at the Itri Pass. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 46 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 back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass.
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back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass sits at 183 km, about halfway. Next is back through Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing.
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back through Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing comes up about 228 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abruzzo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Abruzzo closes the day.
Abruzzo → Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing → The Via Appia at the Itri Pass is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia at the Itri Pass → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass is 27 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 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing → Abruzzo is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.