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 Aquileia it runs 93 km to Aquileia; allow about 1 h 59 of riding. On the way it passes City Fortress of Palmanova, Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power and back through City Fortress of Palmanova. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 27 km of City Fortress of Palmanova → Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power.
Aquileia today is a village of fewer than three thousand people in the flat farmland of Friuli, near the head of the Adriatic, but two thousand years ago it was one of the largest and richest cities of the Roman Empire. Founded as a Latin colony in 181 BC to guard the northeastern approaches to Italy, it grew into a great trading port, connected to the sea by a river and a canal, through which amber, wine, oil and glass moved between the Mediterranean and the lands beyond the Alps. Attila sacked it in 452, and many of its people fled to the lagoons, where their descendants helped found Venice and Grado.
Read the complete Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba write-up.
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Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba is where the day begins. Next is City Fortress of Palmanova.
From the air Palmanova is a perfect nine-pointed star, and even from the saddle you can feel the geometry. The roads come in through monumental gates, cross the moats and ramparts, and run dead straight to a vast hexagonal piazza in the middle, where the whole town seems to stop and look at itself. It is one of the purest examples of an ideal Renaissance city ever built, and it sits on the flat Friulian plain between Udine and the Adriatic like a diagram that somebody forgot to take back.
Read the complete City Fortress of Palmanova write-up.
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City Fortress of Palmanova comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power, 27 km on.
Cividale del Friuli was founded as Forum Iulii, a market town established by Julius Caesar, and it gave its name to the whole region of Friuli. In 568, when the Lombards crossed the Alps and invaded Italy, Cividale was the first city they took, and it became the seat of their first duchy. The Lombards ruled much of Italy for two centuries, and Cividale preserves some of the finest traces of their culture. The Tempietto Longobardo, a small eighth-century chapel overlooking the river, holds a row of stucco female saints of extraordinary grace, among the most beautiful works of art of the early Middle Ages. It is the centrepiece of the UNESCO listing of the Longobards in Italy, Places of the Power, along with sites from Brescia to Benevento. The National Archaeological Museum displays jewellery, weapons and grave goods from Lombard tombs.
Read the complete Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power write-up.
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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power. Next is back through City Fortress of Palmanova.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete City Fortress of Palmanova write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through City Fortress of Palmanova, late in the day. Next is Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba. That is the ride.
Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba → City Fortress of Palmanova is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City Fortress of Palmanova → Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power → back through City Fortress of Palmanova is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through City Fortress of Palmanova → Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.