CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Posillipo it runs 328 km to Posillipo; allow about 6 h 29 of riding. It goes by way of Ancient Capua, The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S, The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae and Appia. Regina Viarum. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Ancient Capua.
Santa Maria Capua Vetere does not look like much as you ride in, a busy Campanian town of tangled traffic and apartment blocks, but under and around it lies ancient Capua, once one of the richest cities in Italy. The Via Appia passed straight through, and its great amphitheatre, second in size only to the Colosseum, still dominates the edge of town. This was where the gladiator schools trained their fighters, and it was from a school in Capua that Spartacus broke out in 73 BC with a band of fellow slaves, beginning the revolt that shook Rome for two years. The amphitheatre and a small gladiator museum nearby are the obvious stops, and the Mithraeum under the town, with its painted scene of the god slaying a bull, is one of the best preserved in Italy.
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Ancient Capua comes up 40 km in. 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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79 km in you reach The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S. Next is The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae.
The queen of roads, the Romans called it: the Via Appia, begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, ran from Rome to Capua and later on to Brindisi, the gateway to Greece and the East. Near Formia, the old road comes down from the hills of Itri to the coast of the Gulf of Gaeta, and a stretch of it, with its paving stones and roadside monuments, survives in the countryside. In 2024, UNESCO listed the Via Appia as a whole, and this section between the eighty-third mile from Rome and the ancient town of Formiae is one of its pieces.
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The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae, about halfway. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 39 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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Via Appia. Regina Viarum sits at 158 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae.
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back through The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae comes up 198 km in. Next is back through The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S.
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237 km in you reach back through The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S. Next is back through Ancient Capua.
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back through Ancient Capua, late in the day. Next is District of Villa Manzo.
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The route ends here after 328 km.
District of Villa Manzo → Ancient Capua is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ancient Capua → The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S → The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae → back through The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S → back through Ancient Capua is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ancient Capua → District of Villa Manzo is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.