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 339 km round trip from Pescasseroli - roughly 7 h 07 in the saddle. On the way it passes The Via Appia in Fundi, Appia. Regina Viarum, back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum and back through The Via Appia in Fundi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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, 55 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. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 56 km on.
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 back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 55 km on.
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back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum sits at 222 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Via Appia in Fundi.
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back through The Via Appia in Fundi comes up about 259 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abruzzo.
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Abruzzo closes the day.
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 → 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.