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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
372 km from Canneto to Canneto, about 6 h 25 of riding. It goes by way of Mount Etna, Militello Val di Catania and back through Mount Etna. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The Aeolian Islands rise from the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily like the tops of a drowned mountain range, which is more or less what they are. Seven main islands, Lipari, Vulcano, Salina, Stromboli, Panarea, Filicudi and Alicudi, are the summits of volcanoes, and two of them are still active: Stromboli, which has thrown out glowing fragments every few minutes for centuries and is known as the lighthouse of the Mediterranean, and Vulcano, whose steaming crater gave every volcano its name. UNESCO listed the archipelago in 2000 for its value in the study of volcanism.
Read the complete Isole Eolie write-up.
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Isole Eolie is where the day begins. Next is Mount Etna.
Etna is not so much a mountain as a living presence that dominates eastern Sicily. Europe's highest active volcano rises over 3,300 metres above Catania, its height changing as eruptions add and remove material, and it smokes, rumbles and occasionally spits fire with a regularity that the locals regard with a mix of reverence and resignation.
Read the complete Mount Etna write-up.
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Mount Etna comes up about 110 km into the recorded legs. Next is Militello Val di Catania.
Militello in Val di Catania is a small town in the hills south-west of Catania, in eastern Sicily, surrounded by orange groves and olive trees, with Mount Etna visible on the horizon. Like many towns in this part of Sicily, it was devastated by the earthquake of 1693, which destroyed much of the south-east of the island, and was rebuilt in the Baroque style. Its churches and palaces are part of the UNESCO-listed Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto, inscribed in 2002, together with Noto, Ragusa, Modica, Caltagirone and others.
Read the complete Militello Val di Catania write-up.
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about 186 km into the recorded legs you reach Militello Val di Catania. Next is back through Mount Etna.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mount Etna write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mount Etna, late in the day. Next is Isole Eolie.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Isole Eolie write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Isole Eolie. That is the ride.
Isole Eolie → Mount Etna is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mount Etna → Militello Val di Catania is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Militello Val di Catania → back through Mount Etna is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mount Etna → Isole Eolie is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.