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 Vallo della Lucania it runs 391 km to Vallo della Lucania; allow about 6 h 33 of riding. It goes by way of Costiera Amalfitana, 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with and back through Costiera Amalfitana. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Costiera Amalfitana → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with for 91 km.
South of Salerno, past the temples of Paestum, the coast bends out into a great knuckle of mountains, and inland from the beaches the Cilento national park climbs into wooded massifs that most visitors never see. The park, together with Paestum, ancient Velia and the Certosa di Padula, is a World Heritage Site, recognised as a cultural landscape shaped by Greek colonists, Lucanian tribes and long monastic tradition.
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Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w is where the day begins. Next is Costiera Amalfitana.
The Amalfi coast road is the reason many riders first dreamed of Italy, and it lives up to the legend and then some, with a few catches. The SS163 Amalfitana, carved into the cliffs above the sea in the nineteenth century, winds along the southern side of the Sorrento peninsula from Positano to Vietri sul Mare, with hundreds of bends, sheer drops, tunnels, bridges and villages clinging to the rocks. Amalfi itself, a small town of about five thousand people at the mouth of a ravine, was once a powerful maritime republic that rivalled Venice and Genoa in the Middle Ages, and its cathedral, with its striped facade and Arab-Norman cloister, is a reminder of that glory.
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Costiera Amalfitana comes up about 106 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with. Next is back through Costiera Amalfitana.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Costiera Amalfitana write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Costiera Amalfitana, late in the day. Next is Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w. That is the ride.
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w → Costiera Amalfitana is 106 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Costiera Amalfitana → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → back through Costiera Amalfitana is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Costiera Amalfitana → Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.