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 284 km to Santa Maria degli Angeli; allow about 4 h 34 of riding. On the way it passes The Clitunno Tempietto, Teatro Feronia, Teatro Lauro Rossi and back through Teatro Feronia. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Clitunno Tempietto.
A few steps from the Via Flaminia, in the green flatland below Spoleto, there is a little building that scholars have argued about for centuries. The Tempietto del Clitunno looks like a miniature Roman temple, with a gabled front, columns and a carved cornice, but it is actually an early medieval church, made largely of reused Roman pieces and probably dating from somewhere between late antiquity and the time of the Lombards. It is among the group of Lombard sites in Italy that UNESCO listed in 2011, and part of its charm is that nobody is quite sure who built it or when.
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The Clitunno Tempietto comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teatro Feronia.
San Severino Marche has one of the most unusual town squares in Italy. The Piazza del Popolo is an elongated ellipse, lined with arcades and palaces, and it was originally a market space outside the walls of the medieval town on the hill above. Today it is the heart of a town of eight thousand people in the valley of the Potenza river, in the inland Marche, and the Teatro Feronia stands on it, an elegant nineteenth-century theatre named after an ancient Italic goddess of fertility and freedom.
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about 114 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Feronia. Next is Teatro Lauro Rossi.
Macerata is a hill town that takes its culture seriously, and the Teatro Lauro Rossi is the polished little jewel in the middle of it. Built in the second half of the eighteenth century in the heart of the old centre, it is a classic Italian horseshoe theatre with tiers of boxes in cream and gold, and it carries the name of Lauro Rossi, a nineteenth-century composer born in the town. If the doors are open, step in for a look; the room is intimate enough that you can imagine the whole town crammed in for a premiere, gossiping between acts.
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Teatro Lauro Rossi, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro Feronia.
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Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
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back through Teatro Feronia sits at 192 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Clitunno Tempietto.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Clitunno Tempietto write-up.
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back through The Clitunno Tempietto comes up about 251 km into the recorded legs. Next is Basilique de Santa Maria degli Angeli et l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Basilique de Santa Maria degli Angeli et l write-up.
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Basilique de Santa Maria degli Angeli et l closes the day.
Basilique de Santa Maria degli Angeli et l → The Clitunno Tempietto is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Clitunno Tempietto → Teatro Feronia is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Feronia → Teatro Lauro Rossi is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Lauro Rossi → back through Teatro Feronia is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Feronia → back through The Clitunno Tempietto is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Clitunno Tempietto → Basilique de Santa Maria degli Angeli et l is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.