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 291 km to Brindisi; allow about 5 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Quartiere Aja Piccola, The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian C and back through Quartiere Aja Piccola. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
Read the complete Brundisium write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Brundisium is where the day begins. Next is Quartiere Aja Piccola.
Alberobello is famous for its trulli, the little whitewashed stone houses with grey conical roofs that look as if they belong in a children's book. They stand in thousands across the Itria valley in Puglia, but in the town of Alberobello they come in two dense clusters on opposite hillsides, and the quarter called Aia Piccola is the quieter of the two. It holds around four hundred trulli, climbing a gentle slope, and unlike its showier neighbour across the valley, it is still mostly residential, with washing on lines, geraniums in pots and the occasional shop selling local cheese and wine. UNESCO listed the town in 1996.
Read the complete Quartiere Aja Piccola write-up.
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Quartiere Aja Piccola comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian C.
Matera is one of those places where the first view genuinely changes the mood of a day. You walk to the edge of the modern town, look down, and there are the Sassi: two hollows in the limestone filled with houses stacked on top of each other, their roofs serving as streets for the houses above, churches cut into the rock, staircases and alleys tumbling down to the edge of a deep ravine, the Gravina. Across the gorge, the Murgia plateau is riddled with caves and rock churches, some with Byzantine frescoes, used by monks and shepherds for over a thousand years. People have lived in these caves since prehistoric times, which makes Matera one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world.
Read the complete The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian C write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 145 km into the recorded legs you reach The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian C. Next is back through Quartiere Aja Piccola.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Quartiere Aja Piccola write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Quartiere Aja Piccola, late in the day. Next is Brundisium.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brundisium write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Brundisium. That is the ride.
Brundisium → Quartiere Aja Piccola is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Quartiere Aja Piccola → The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian C is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian C → back through Quartiere Aja Piccola is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Quartiere Aja Piccola → Brundisium is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.