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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From Posillipo it runs 252 km to Posillipo; allow about 5 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of 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.
There is a song about Marechiaro, and for once the song is not exaggerating. The little fishing hamlet on the Posillipo headland, at the western edge of the Bay of Naples, inspired a poem by Salvatore Di Giacomo in the 1880s about a window and a flower, and Francesco Paolo Tosti set it to music, so that "Marechiare" has been sung in Neapolitan kitchens and concert halls ever since. Locals will point out the so-called Fenestella, a small window on a wall above the sea, as the very one. Whether the poet had it in mind or not is a matter for a pleasant argument over a plate of fried fish.
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Marechiaro 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.
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The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 67 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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about 126 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.
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back through The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S, late in the day. Next is Marechiaro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Marechiaro write-up.
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Back at Marechiaro. That is the ride.
Marechiaro → The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S is 57 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 → Marechiaro is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.