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 Brindisi it runs 318 km to Brindisi; allow about 5 h 48 of riding. The stops in between: The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast, The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum, Tarentum and Quartiere Monti. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 35 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Brindisi is where the Appian Way ends, and the Romans knew it as Brundisium. The old road ran from Rome across southern Italy to this harbour, the gateway to Greece and the East, and a tall Roman column near the waterfront marks its final stretch; a second column stood beside it until it was taken to Lecce in the seventeenth century. The harbour itself is a long, sheltered inlet, a natural port that has served merchants, crusaders and armies for more than two thousand years.
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Brundisium is where the day begins. Next is The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast.
Between Ostuni and Brindisi, along the Adriatic coast of Puglia, ran the Via Appia Traiana, a road built by the emperor Trajan in the early second century as a faster alternative to the old Appian Way, carrying traffic to the port of Brundisium, the gateway to Greece and the East. In 2024, stretches of both roads were inscribed by UNESCO as Via Appia, Regina Viarum. Here the old route followed the coastal plain through olive groves, and traces of it, together with ancient settlements, can be found near the sea.
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The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum.
The last stretch of the Via Appia ran across this flat, sun-drenched part of Puglia toward Brundisium, the port from which Romans sailed to Greece and the East. The road, begun in 312 BC from Rome, was the queen of roads, and the whole route became a UNESCO site in 2024. The section between the stations the Romans called Mesochorum and Scamnum passes near Oria and Francavilla Fontana, and while little of the original paving survives here, the line of the road still shapes the landscape, with modern roads, field boundaries and farm tracks following its course.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum. Next is Tarentum.
Taranto is a city between two seas. The old town sits on a small island between the Mar Grande, an open bay of the Gulf of Taranto, and the Mar Piccolo, an inner lagoon, connected to the mainland by bridges, including a swing bridge that opens to let warships pass into the naval base. Founded by Spartan colonists in the eighth century BC as Taras, it became one of the richest and most powerful cities of Magna Graecia, the Greek world in southern Italy, before falling to Rome.
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Tarentum, about halfway. Next is Quartiere Monti.
Alberobello looks like a fairy tale for about the first thirty seconds, and then you start wondering how on earth the trulli stay up. These little round houses of limestone, with conical roofs built of flat stones stacked in rings and no mortar at all, are a building tradition unique to this corner of Puglia, and the Rione Monti quarter on the southern hill of town has the densest concentration of them anywhere, around a thousand packed along a few steep lanes.
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Quartiere Monti sits at 162 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tarentum.
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back through Tarentum comes up about 208 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum.
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about 248 km into the recorded legs you reach back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum. Next is back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast.
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back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast, late in the day. Next is Brundisium.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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The route ends here after 318 km.
Brundisium → The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast → The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum → Tarentum is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tarentum → Quartiere Monti is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Quartiere Monti → back through Tarentum is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tarentum → back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum → back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast → Brundisium is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.