CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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403 km from Noto to Noto, about 6 h 30 of riding. The stops in between: Militello Val di Catania, Mount Etna and back through Militello Val di Catania. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Noto died on the evening of 11 January 1693 and was reborn on another hill. An earthquake that struck south-east Sicily that night destroyed dozens of towns, and killed tens of thousands of people. The survivors of Noto decided to abandon the old site, high on a mountain, and build a new town a few kilometres south, on a gentle slope nearer the sea. The result is a baroque city planned on a grid, with long streets, broad stairs and a succession of churches and palaces, all made of soft honey-coloured limestone that turns gold at sunset. The late baroque towns of the Val di Noto are listed by UNESCO, and Noto is the star.
Read the complete Noto write-up.
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Noto is where the day begins. 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.
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Militello Val di Catania comes up 71 km in. 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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143 km in you reach Mount Etna. Next is back through Militello Val di Catania.
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Read the complete Militello Val di Catania write-up.
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back through Militello Val di Catania, late in the day. Next is Noto.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Noto write-up.
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Back at Noto. That is the ride.
Noto → Militello Val di Catania is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Militello Val di Catania → Mount Etna is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mount Etna → back through Militello Val di Catania is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Militello Val di Catania → Noto is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.