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 Santa Maria degli Angeli it runs 335 km to Santa Maria degli Angeli; allow about 6 h 39 of riding. The stops in between: The system of Italian-style condominio the, Teatro dell'Aquila and back through The system of Italian-style condominio the. The line favours views over speed.
Below the hill of Assisi, on the plain, stands a church that was built to cover a tiny one. The Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, a huge baroque building from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, has at its centre the Porziuncola, a small chapel of stone, only a few metres long, where Francis of Assisi received his first followers and founded the Franciscan order in the early thirteenth century. He died in a hut beside it in 1226, and the chapel was so precious that the basilica was raised over it, like a case around a jewel.
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Basilique de Santa Maria degli Angeli et l is where the day begins. Next is The system of Italian-style condominio the.
The Marche has more historic theatres per head than almost anywhere in Italy. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, almost every hill town built its own opera house, often paid for by local families who then owned their boxes, like apartments in a condominium, and passed them down through generations. The result is a network of jewel box theatres in small towns, with tiers of boxes, painted ceilings and gilded stucco, many of them restored and still in use. San Severino Marche, a few kilometres away, has the Teatro Feronia, one of these, and the network of such theatres across the region has been put forward for World Heritage recognition.
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The system of Italian-style condominio the comes up about 85 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teatro dell'Aquila.
Fermo sits on a hill above the Adriatic, and its theatre is the jewel inside the town. The Teatro dell'Aquila was built in the late eighteenth century, designed by the architect Cosimo Morelli, and it is one of the largest and finest historic theatres in the Marche, a region that has an extraordinary number of them, almost every town having its own little opera house. Inside, tiers of gilded boxes rise in a horseshoe around the stalls, and the painted ceiling glows above. If you can catch a performance, or join a guided visit, do so.
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about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro dell'Aquila. Next is back through The system of Italian-style condominio the.
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back through The system of Italian-style condominio the, late in the day. Next is Basilique de Santa Maria degli Angeli et l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at Basilique de Santa Maria degli Angeli et l. That is the ride.
Basilique de Santa Maria degli Angeli et l → The system of Italian-style condominio the is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The system of Italian-style condominio the → Teatro dell'Aquila is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro dell'Aquila → back through The system of Italian-style condominio the is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The system of Italian-style condominio the → Basilique de Santa Maria degli Angeli et l is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.