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 Benevento it runs 297 km to Benevento; allow about 5 h 40 of riding. The stops in between: 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with, Historic Centre of Naples, Historical Centre of Naples and back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
This part of the ride is 51 km of Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caser.
Benevento was a Samnite town called Maleventum when the Romans arrived, and they reportedly changed its name to Beneventum, good event instead of bad event, after defeating King Pyrrhus nearby in 275 BC. The city became an important stop on the Via Appia, and later the starting point of the Via Traiana, a shorter route to Brindisi built by the Emperor Trajan. In 114 AD, the city erected a triumphal arch in his honour where the new road began, and it is one of the best preserved Roman arches anywhere, covered with reliefs celebrating Trajan's achievements, from his conquests to his care for the poor. It stands today at the edge of the old town, its marble a soft cream colour, its carvings still sharp.
Read the complete Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan write-up.
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Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan is where the day begins. Next is 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
When Charles of Bourbon, king of Naples, decided to build a royal palace to rival Versailles, he did not do things by halves. The Reggia di Caserta, begun in 1752 to a design by Luigi Vanvitelli, is one of the largest royal palaces in the world, with some twelve hundred rooms, four inner courtyards, a theatre and a grand staircase that has appeared in films including Star Wars, where it stood in for the palace of Naboo. Behind it, a park stretches for three kilometres up the hillside, with fountains, statues and a long chain of pools and cascades fed by an aqueduct that Vanvitelli built specially, ending at a great waterfall at the top.
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18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Centre of Naples.
Naples is not a city you ride through so much as one you survive and then fall in love with. The historic centre, a UNESCO site since 1995, sits on the street plan of Neapolis, the Greek new city founded around the sixth century BC, and the three ancient decumani still run straight through it, the most famous being Spaccanapoli, the street that splits Naples in two. Along them, churches, palaces, shrines, workshops and laundry-hung alleys are packed together with an intensity found nowhere else in Europe.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Naples write-up.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic Centre of Naples.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with write-up.
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18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with, about halfway. Next is Historical Centre of Naples.
Naples does not wait until you are ready. The historic centre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in Europe, founded by Greek settlers as Neapolis, the new city, in the sixth century BC, and the grid they laid out is still visible in the long straight street the locals call Spaccanapoli. Roman, Byzantine, Norman, Angevin, Aragonese, Spanish and Bourbon rulers each added a layer, and UNESCO listed the centre in 1995 as one of the great palimpsests of European history.
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Historical Centre of Naples sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with write-up.
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back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with comes up about 183 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Historic Centre of Naples.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Naples write-up.
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about 215 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Historic Centre of Naples.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with write-up.
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back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with, late in the day. Next is Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 297 km.
Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → Historic Centre of Naples is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Naples → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → Historical Centre of Naples is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historical Centre of Naples → back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → back through Historic Centre of Naples is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of Naples → back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.