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 278 km round trip from Minturno - roughly 4 h 13 in the saddle. It goes by way of 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with, The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum and back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
55 km on Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing → 18th-Century Royal Palace at C.
Where the Via Appia crossed the River Garigliano, the Romans built a town, and armies have been fighting over the crossing ever since. Minturnae was founded as a Roman colony in the late fourth century BC on the border between Lazio and Campania, and its ruins lie beside the river near the modern town of Minturno: a theatre still used for summer performances, a forum, temples, baths, a stretch of the Via Appia's paving and the arches of an aqueduct striding across the fields. A small museum displays statues and finds from the site.
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Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing is where the day begins. Next is 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
When Charles of Bourbon, king of Naples, decided to build a royal palace to rival Versailles, he did not do things by halves. The Reggia di Caserta, begun in 1752 to a design by Luigi Vanvitelli, is one of the largest royal palaces in the world, with some twelve hundred rooms, four inner courtyards, a theatre and a grand staircase that has appeared in films including Star Wars, where it stood in for the palace of Naboo. Behind it, a park stretches for three kilometres up the hillside, with fountains, statues and a long chain of pools and cascades fed by an aqueduct that Vanvitelli built specially, ending at a great waterfall at the top.
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18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum.
East of Benevento, the Via Appia leaves the Calore valley and heads into the green, rolling hills of Irpinia on its long way to Brindisi, and near Venticano and Pietradefusi you are travelling over one of its quieter stretches. The road the Romans laid here is mostly lost under fields and later tracks, but the line still guides the landscape, and a short way south-east lie the remains of Aeclanum, near Mirabella Eclano, a Roman town that grew rich on the traffic. Benevento itself was the great junction: from here the original Appia ran over the hills to Venusia and Tarentum, while the Emperor Trajan built a faster route, the Via Traiana, through the plains of Apulia. His triumphal arch, raised in AD 114, still stands in Benevento, its reliefs remarkably sharp.
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about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum. Next is back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with, late in the day. Next is Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing. That is the ride.
Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 55 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum → back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing is 56 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.