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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 250 km round trip from Posillipo - roughly 5 h 00 in the saddle. On the way it passes The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S, Appia. Regina Viarum and back through The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S. The line favours views over speed.
Posillipo takes its name from a Greek phrase meaning a pause from pain, and the Romans, who knew a good view when they saw one, covered the ridge with villas. It is the green promontory that divides the Bay of Naples from the Gulf of Pozzuoli, a hill of soft yellow tuff thrown up by the volcanoes of the Phlegraean Fields, and its western slope falls into the sea in cliffs and small coves. The Casale and Santo Strato district sits on the sea side of the hill, where terraced gardens, old walls and tiny ports survived the building boom that swallowed so much of Naples.
Read the complete District of Casale and Santo Strato write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
District of Casale and Santo Strato is where the day begins. Next is The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S.
The Via Appia, the Queen of Roads, ran from Rome to Brindisi, and in 2024 UNESCO inscribed long stretches of it as a single World Heritage site. Near Mondragone, on the coast of northern Campania, the road passes the site of Sinuessa, a Roman colony that once guarded the route where it reached the sea after crossing the coastal plains from the north. Not a great deal stands above ground today, so this is a place where you read the landscape rather than tour the ruins.
Read the complete The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 67 km on.
Terracina is the point where the Via Appia, the queen of roads, meets the sea after its long straight run from Rome across the Pontine plain. The Romans built the road in 312 BC under the censor Appius Claudius, and for its time it was a marvel: paved, drained and as straight as engineering allowed, linking Rome to Capua and later to Brindisi. The stretch through the Pontine marshes was notorious for mosquitoes and malaria, and travellers often took a canal boat alongside the road instead, as the poet Horace describes in one of his satires.
Read the complete Via Appia. Regina Viarum write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 125 km into the recorded legs you reach Via Appia. Regina Viarum. Next is back through The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S, late in the day. Next is District of Casale and Santo Strato.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete District of Casale and Santo Strato write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at District of Casale and Santo Strato. That is the ride.
District of Casale and Santo Strato → The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S → District of Casale and Santo Strato is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.