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 Posillipo it runs 251 km to Posillipo; allow about 5 h 00 of riding. The stops in between: 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 is the hill that Naples looks at when it wants to feel it lives somewhere grand. It is a long ridge of soft volcanic tuff that runs out into the bay on the western side of the city, with villas, gardens and terraces, and views over the water to Vesuvius and the islands of Capri and Ischia. The Greeks called it Pausilypon, which means a pause from pain, and the Romans agreed: the rich built villas here, and the ruins of one of them, that of Vedius Pollio, can still be visited in a park above the sea. Virgil is said to be buried in the park near Mergellina, though the evidence is slim and the scholars are polite about it.
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District of Villa Manzo 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.
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The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 66 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.
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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 Villa Manzo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete District of Villa Manzo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at District of Villa Manzo. That is the ride.
District of Villa Manzo → 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 Villa Manzo is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.