Why this ride
448 km from San Leo to San Leo, about 8 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of Teatro Bramante, Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, Teatro Feronia and Teatro dell'Aquila. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Evaporiti di San Leo and Teatro dell'Aquila
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 448 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 8 h 05
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Evaporiti di San Leo
San Leo stands on a limestone block that rises sheer out of the Marecchia valley, and from a distance it looks like a fortress that nobody could possibly have captured. The ground under it tells a longer and stranger story. The evaporite rocks in this area, gypsum and associated salts, were laid down around six million years ago, when the Mediterranean nearly dried out in what geologists call the Messinian salinity crisis. Seawater evaporated, minerals crystallised, and the beds you see in the cuttings are the leftovers of that event.
Read the complete Evaporiti di San Leo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Evaporiti di San Leo is where the day begins. Next is Teatro Bramante.
2. Teatro Bramante
Urbania has had three names. It began as Castel delle Ripe, became Casteldurante in the thirteenth century, and was renamed in 1636 when Pope Urban VIII took over the duchy and gave it his own. In the Renaissance it was a pottery town, famous for majolica, the tin-glazed painted earthenware that Duke Guidobaldo and his court sent as gifts around Europe, and the ceramics still sold in the shops carry on that tradition. The theatre that bears the name of Bramante, the great architect who was born in nearby Fermignano, stands in the town centre, a small, intimate house with tiers of boxes in the Italian manner, and the town itself is a small walled place on a bend of the Metauro river, with brick arcades and a handsome ducal palace.
Read the complete Teatro Bramante write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Teatro Bramante comes up 50 km in. Next is Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
3. Teatro Gentile da Fabriano
Paper made Fabriano. Since at least the thirteenth century, craftsmen in this inland town of the Marche have made paper, and they are credited with key innovations: the use of animal gelatine to size the sheets and, most famously, the watermark. Fabriano paper is still made here today, and the Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, in a former monastery, shows the old techniques with working demonstrations. Your banknotes may well have been printed on paper from this town.
Read the complete Teatro Gentile da Fabriano write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
101 km in you reach Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. Next is Teatro Feronia.
4. Teatro Feronia
San Severino Marche has one of the most unusual town squares in Italy. The Piazza del Popolo is an elongated ellipse, lined with arcades and palaces, and it was originally a market space outside the walls of the medieval town on the hill above. Today it is the heart of a town of eight thousand people in the valley of the Potenza river, in the inland Marche, and the Teatro Feronia stands on it, an elegant nineteenth-century theatre named after an ancient Italic goddess of fertility and freedom.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Teatro Feronia, about halfway. Next is Teatro dell'Aquila.
5. Teatro dell'Aquila
Fermo sits on a hill above the Adriatic, and its theatre is the jewel inside the town. The Teatro dell'Aquila was built in the late eighteenth century, designed by the architect Cosimo Morelli, and it is one of the largest and finest historic theatres in the Marche, a region that has an extraordinary number of them, almost every town having its own little opera house. Inside, tiers of gilded boxes rise in a horseshoe around the stalls, and the painted ceiling glows above. If you can catch a performance, or join a guided visit, do so.
Read the complete Teatro dell'Aquila write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Teatro dell'Aquila sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro Feronia.
6. back through Teatro Feronia
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Teatro Feronia comes up 251 km in. Next is back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
7. back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Gentile da Fabriano write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
302 km in you reach back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. Next is back through Teatro Bramante.
8. back through Teatro Bramante
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Bramante write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Teatro Bramante, late in the day. Next is Evaporiti di San Leo.
9. Evaporiti di San Leo
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Evaporiti di San Leo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
The route ends here after 448 km.
Leg by leg
Evaporiti di San Leo to Teatro Bramante
Evaporiti di San Leo → Teatro Bramante is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Bramante to Teatro Gentile da Fabriano
Teatro Bramante → Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Gentile da Fabriano to Teatro Feronia
Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → Teatro Feronia is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Feronia to Teatro dell'Aquila
Teatro Feronia → Teatro dell'Aquila is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro dell'Aquila to back through Teatro Feronia
Teatro dell'Aquila → back through Teatro Feronia is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Feronia to back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano
back through Teatro Feronia → back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano to back through Teatro Bramante
back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → back through Teatro Bramante is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Bramante to Evaporiti di San Leo
back through Teatro Bramante → Evaporiti di San Leo is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.