CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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192 km from Maiori to Maiori, about 3 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes Torre Annunziata: Villa B, Historic Centre of Naples, 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with and back through Historic Centre of Naples. The line favours views over speed.
For 25 km this is Amalfi Coast Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
This part of the ride is 34 km of Historic Centre of Naples → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with .
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.
Read the complete Costiera Amalfitana write-up.
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Costiera Amalfitana is where the day begins. Next is Torre Annunziata: Villa B.
Under the shadow of Vesuvius, in the middle of a modern working town, there is a Roman villa that was buried in the same eruption of AD 79 that destroyed Pompeii. Torre Annunziata stands on the ancient site of Oplontis, a seaside suburb of Pompeii, and its two excavated villas are part of the UNESCO listing of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata, inscribed in 1997. Villa A, the grander one, is famous for its frescoes and is linked with Poppaea Sabina, the wife of Nero. Villa B, the one on this ride, is different, a commercial building where wine and other goods were stored and traded, with a large courtyard and many amphorae found when it was dug up.
Read the complete Torre Annunziata: Villa B write-up.
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Torre Annunziata: Villa B comes up 28 km in. Next is Historic Centre of Naples.
Naples is not a city you ride through so much as one you survive and then fall in love with. The historic centre, a UNESCO site since 1995, sits on the street plan of Neapolis, the Greek new city founded around the sixth century BC, and the three ancient decumani still run straight through it, the most famous being Spaccanapoli, the street that splits Naples in two. Along them, churches, palaces, shrines, workshops and laundry-hung alleys are packed together with an intensity found nowhere else in Europe.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Naples write-up.
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57 km in you reach Historic Centre of Naples. 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.
Read the complete 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with write-up.
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18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Centre of Naples.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Naples write-up.
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back through Historic Centre of Naples sits at 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through Torre Annunziata: Villa B.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Torre Annunziata: Villa B write-up.
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back through Torre Annunziata: Villa B comes up 142 km in. Next is 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.
Costiera Amalfitana closes the day.
Costiera Amalfitana → Torre Annunziata: Villa B is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre Annunziata: Villa B → Historic Centre of Naples is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Naples → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → back through Historic Centre of Naples is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of Naples → back through Torre Annunziata: Villa B is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Torre Annunziata: Villa B → Costiera Amalfitana is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.