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 249 km round trip from Montecalvario - roughly 5 h 00 in the saddle. 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Naples does not wait until you are ready. The historic centre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in Europe, founded by Greek settlers as Neapolis, the new city, in the sixth century BC, and the grid they laid out is still visible in the long straight street the locals call Spaccanapoli. Roman, Byzantine, Norman, Angevin, Aragonese, Spanish and Bourbon rulers each added a layer, and UNESCO listed the centre in 1995 as one of the great palimpsests of European history.
Read the complete Historical Centre of Naples write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historical Centre of Naples 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.
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The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S comes up about 55 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.
Read the complete Via Appia. Regina Viarum write-up.
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about 124 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 Historical Centre of Naples.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historical Centre of Naples write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historical Centre of Naples. That is the ride.
Historical Centre of Naples → The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S is 55 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 → Historical Centre of Naples is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.