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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A 338 km round trip from San Leo - roughly 6 h 45 in the saddle. On the way it passes Teatro Bramante, Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, The system of Italian-style condominio the and back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Evaporiti di San Leo is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Teatro Bramante comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. Next is The system of Italian-style condominio the.
The Marche has more historic theatres per head than almost anywhere in Italy. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, almost every hill town built its own opera house, often paid for by local families who then owned their boxes, like apartments in a condominium, and passed them down through generations. The result is a network of jewel box theatres in small towns, with tiers of boxes, painted ceilings and gilded stucco, many of them restored and still in use. San Severino Marche, a few kilometres away, has the Teatro Feronia, one of these, and the network of such theatres across the region has been put forward for World Heritage recognition.
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The system of Italian-style condominio the, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
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back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano sits at 178 km, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro Bramante.
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back through Teatro Bramante comes up about 293 km into the recorded legs. Next is Evaporiti di San Leo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Evaporiti di San Leo closes the day.
Evaporiti di San Leo → Teatro Bramante is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Bramante → Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → The system of Italian-style condominio the is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The system of Italian-style condominio the → back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → back through Teatro Bramante is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Bramante → Evaporiti di San Leo is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.