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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192 km from Minturno to Minturno, about 4 h 15 of riding. On the way it passes The Via Appia at the Itri Pass, Appia. Regina Viarum, back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum and back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 The Via Appia at the Itri Pass.
Ancient Rome's first great highway, the Via Appia, was begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, and it ran from Rome south to Capua and later on to Brindisi on the Adriatic. At Itri, in the hills behind the Gulf of Gaeta, it squeezes through a narrow pass between the Monti Aurunci and the sea, and the road still crosses the same gap today. A stretch of the old paved line survives near the pass, with its big, rounded basalt blocks, though you will need to get off the main road and look carefully to find it.
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The Via Appia at the Itri Pass comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 34 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 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Via Appia. Regina Viarum.
South of the Alban Hills, the Via Appia drops onto the Pontine plain and runs dead straight for mile after mile, as if the Roman engineers had laid it with a ruler, which in a sense they did. This was the Regina Viarum, the queen of roads, begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus to link Rome with Capua, and later extended to Brindisi. Here, near Sezze Scalo and Latina, the road crossed the Pontine Marshes, a malarial swamp that defeated would-be drainers from the Romans to the popes. Travellers sometimes took a canal boat alongside the road instead, and the poet Horace complained about the mosquitoes and the frogs keeping him awake on that very journey.
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Via Appia. Regina Viarum, about halfway. Next is back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 34 km on.
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back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum sits at 136 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass.
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Read the complete The Via Appia at the Itri Pass write-up.
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back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass comes up about 160 km into the recorded legs. Next is Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing.
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Read the complete Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing write-up.
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Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing closes the day.
Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing → The Via Appia at the Itri Pass is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia at the Itri Pass → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia at the Itri Pass → Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.