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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87 km from Benevento to Benevento, about 2 h 11 of riding. It goes by way of The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum, The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu and back through The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum. The line favours views over speed.
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 The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum.
East of Benevento, the Via Appia leaves the Calore valley and heads into the green, rolling hills of Irpinia on its long way to Brindisi, and near Venticano and Pietradefusi you are travelling over one of its quieter stretches. The road the Romans laid here is mostly lost under fields and later tracks, but the line still guides the landscape, and a short way south-east lie the remains of Aeclanum, near Mirabella Eclano, a Roman town that grew rich on the traffic. Benevento itself was the great junction: from here the original Appia ran over the hills to Venusia and Tarentum, while the Emperor Trajan built a faster route, the Via Traiana, through the plains of Apulia. His triumphal arch, raised in AD 114, still stands in Benevento, its reliefs remarkably sharp.
Read the complete The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum write-up.
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The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu.
Trajan was an emperor who liked roads, and in about AD 109 he opened a new one to shorten the journey from Rome to Brindisi, the port for Greece and the East. The old Via Appia went the long way round, down through the marshes and the coast, and the Via Traiana cut inland from Benevento through the hills of Irpinia and across the Apulian plain. This section, from Beneventum toward the old stop of Aequum Tuticum near modern Ariano Irpino, crosses a country of rolling grain fields, hill villages and wind turbines turning on the ridges.
Read the complete The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu write-up.
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about 40 km into the recorded legs you reach The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu. Next is back through The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum, 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.
Back at Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan. That is the ride.
Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan → The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum → The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu → back through The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum → Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.