Why this ride
A 375 km round trip from Rome - roughly 6 h 14 in the saddle. It goes by way of Monte Cimino, Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti and back through Monte Cimino. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Properties of the Holy See in that City En and Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 375 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 14
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Properties of the Holy See in that City En → Monte Cimino
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 81 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 107 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Properties of the Holy See in that City En
The Vatican is the world's smallest state, and you ride in and out of it without noticing. The line between Italy and the Holy See is marked on the pavement of St Peter's Square, and the entire country covers less than half a square kilometre, with fewer than a thousand residents. What UNESCO listed, together with the properties of the Holy See in Rome beyond the walls, is a great collection of art and architecture: the basilica built over the supposed tomb of the apostle Peter, the dome that Michelangelo designed, Bernini's colonnade, and the Sistine Chapel and its ceiling, painted in the early sixteenth century.
Read the complete Properties of the Holy See in that City En write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Properties of the Holy See in that City En is where the day begins. Next is Monte Cimino.
2. Monte Cimino
Monte Cimino is the highest point of the Cimini hills, an old volcanic range rising to just over a thousand metres between Viterbo and the Tiber valley in northern Lazio. Its top is clothed in one of the most beautiful beech forests in Italy, unusually low for beech in this latitude, and UNESCO counts these trees among Europe's ancient beech forests. On a hot summer day, climbing into its shade from the baking plain feels like entering a cathedral.
Read the complete Monte Cimino write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Monte Cimino comes up about 107 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti.
3. Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-born composer who made his career in America, and in 1958 he decided that Spoleto, a small hill town in Umbria, would be the right home for a festival that brought together artists from both sides of the Atlantic. That is the origin of the Festival dei Due Mondi, the Festival of Two Worlds, which still fills the town with opera, theatre, dance and music every year in late June and July. The theatre that bears his name, the Teatro Nuovo, was built in the nineteenth century and is the main stage, a handsome horseshoe with gilt boxes and a painted ceiling.
Read the complete Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 188 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. Next is back through Monte Cimino.
4. back through Monte Cimino
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monte Cimino write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Monte Cimino, late in the day. Next is Properties of the Holy See in that City En.
5. Properties of the Holy See in that City En
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Properties of the Holy See in that City En write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Properties of the Holy See in that City En. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Properties of the Holy See in that City En to Monte Cimino
Properties of the Holy See in that City En → Monte Cimino is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Monte Cimino to Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Monte Cimino → Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti to back through Monte Cimino
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti → back through Monte Cimino is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Monte Cimino to Properties of the Holy See in that City En
back through Monte Cimino → Properties of the Holy See in that City En is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.