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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A 555 km round trip from Vallo della Lucania - roughly 10 h 18 in the saddle. The stops in between: Paestum, Capo Palinuro, Cozzo Ferriero and back through Capo Palinuro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w write-up.
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Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w is where the day begins. Next is Paestum.
Paestum itself, with its three magnificent Doric temples built by Greek colonists, lies down on the coastal plain south of Salerno, and it is part of a single UNESCO listing that covers the whole Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, together with the ancient city of Velia and the Certosa di Padula. This point is in the wild interior of that park, close to Monte Cervati, the highest mountain in Campania.
Read the complete Paestum write-up.
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Paestum comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Capo Palinuro.
The cape itself, a rocky headland full of sea caves, lies some way west around the coast, past Marina di Camerota, and both belong to the same wild southern end of the Cilento. The name comes from Virgil: Palinurus was the helmsman of Aeneas, who fell asleep at the tiller, tumbled overboard and washed up on this shore, where he was killed by the locals. His ghost, in the Aeneid, asks for a proper burial, and the cape was named for him.
Read the complete Capo Palinuro write-up.
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about 148 km into the recorded legs you reach Capo Palinuro. Next is Cozzo Ferriero.
Pollino is the biggest national park in Italy, a high limestone massif on the border between Calabria and Basilicata, where the southern Apennines make their last great stand before the toe of the peninsula. The summits reach over two thousand metres, with Serra Dolcedorme at 2,267, and on the exposed ridges grow the pino loricato, the Bosnian pine, a tree of extraordinary age, twisted by wind into sculptural shapes, with some individuals said to be a thousand years old. Griffon vultures and eagles patrol the cliffs, and the wolf has returned to the forests.
Read the complete Cozzo Ferriero write-up.
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Cozzo Ferriero, about halfway. Next is back through Capo Palinuro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Capo Palinuro write-up.
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back through Capo Palinuro sits at 185 km, about halfway. Next is back through Paestum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Paestum write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Paestum comes up about 477 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w closes the day.
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w → Paestum is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Paestum → Capo Palinuro is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Capo Palinuro → Cozzo Ferriero is 132 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cozzo Ferriero → back through Capo Palinuro is 126 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Capo Palinuro → back through Paestum is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Paestum → Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.