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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355 km from Castrovillari to Castrovillari, about 5 h 18 of riding. It goes by way of Capo Palinuro, Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w and back through Capo Palinuro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Pollinello is a small spot of Calabrian hill country with no big name attached, and its real importance is where it sits: a few kilometres from the foot of the Pollino massif, in the north of the region, close to the border with Basilicata. Do not look for a pass or a monument. Think of it as a doorway into the Pollino National Park, the largest protected area in Italy, with Morano Calabro and the town of Castrovillari as the places that organise daily life around it.
Read the complete Pollinello write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pollinello is where the day begins. Next is Capo Palinuro.
The cape itself, a rocky headland full of sea caves, lies some way west around the coast, past Marina di Camerota, and both belong to the same wild southern end of the Cilento. The name comes from Virgil: Palinurus was the helmsman of Aeneas, who fell asleep at the tiller, tumbled overboard and washed up on this shore, where he was killed by the locals. His ghost, in the Aeneid, asks for a proper burial, and the cape was named for him.
Read the complete Capo Palinuro write-up.
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Capo Palinuro comes up about 124 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w.
South of Salerno, past the temples of Paestum, the coast bends out into a great knuckle of mountains, and inland from the beaches the Cilento national park climbs into wooded massifs that most visitors never see. The park, together with Paestum, ancient Velia and the Certosa di Padula, is a World Heritage Site, recognised as a cultural landscape shaped by Greek colonists, Lucanian tribes and long monastic tradition.
Read the complete Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w write-up.
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about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w. Next is back through Capo Palinuro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Capo Palinuro write-up.
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back through Capo Palinuro, late in the day. Next is Pollinello.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pollinello write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pollinello. That is the ride.
Pollinello → Capo Palinuro is 124 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Capo Palinuro → Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w → back through Capo Palinuro is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Capo Palinuro → Pollinello is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.