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 Viggianello it runs 561 km to Viggianello; allow about 10 h 11 of riding. It goes by way of Capo Palinuro, Paestum, Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w and back through Paestum. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 is where the day begins. 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.
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Capo Palinuro comes up about 131 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 202 km into the recorded legs you reach Paestum. Next is Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w.
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, about halfway. Next is back through Paestum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Paestum write-up.
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back through Paestum sits at 185 km, 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 comes up about 429 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cozzo Ferriero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cozzo Ferriero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cozzo Ferriero closes the day.
Cozzo Ferriero → Capo Palinuro is 131 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Capo Palinuro → Paestum is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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.
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w → back through Paestum is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Paestum → back through Capo Palinuro is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Capo Palinuro → Cozzo Ferriero is 132 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.