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 549 km round trip from Castrovillari - roughly 9 h 33 in the saddle. The stops in between: Capo Palinuro, Paestum, Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w and back through Paestum. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
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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 Paestum.
Paestum itself, with its three magnificent Doric temples built by Greek colonists, lies down on the coastal plain south of Salerno, and it is part of a single UNESCO listing that covers the whole Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, together with the ancient city of Velia and the Certosa di Padula. This point is in the wild interior of that park, close to Monte Cervati, the highest mountain in Campania.
Read the complete Paestum write-up.
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about 195 km into the recorded legs you reach Paestum. 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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Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w, about halfway. Next is back through Paestum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Paestum write-up.
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back through Paestum sits at 199 km, about halfway. Next is back through Capo Palinuro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Capo Palinuro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Capo Palinuro comes up about 422 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Pollinello closes the day.
Pollinello → Capo Palinuro is 124 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Capo Palinuro → Paestum is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Paestum → Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w → back through Paestum is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Paestum → back through Capo Palinuro is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Capo Palinuro → Pollinello is 128 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.