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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206 km from San Marco to San Marco, about 4 h 12 of riding. The stops in between: Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w, Capo Palinuro and back through Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
According to legend, the siren Leucosia threw herself into the sea here after failing to lure Odysseus to his doom, and her body became the little island off Punta Licosa. It is a fine story for a fine place. Punta Licosa is a low, wild headland on the coast of the Cilento, south of Salerno, covered in Mediterranean scrub, pines and holm oaks, with rocky coves and clear water, and it forms part of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, listed by UNESCO in 1998 as a cultural landscape. Behind it rises Monte Stella, the mountain that gives its name to the surrounding hills, dotted with small villages and terraced olive groves.
Read the complete Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region write-up.
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Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Capo Palinuro. Next is back through Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w, late in the day. Next is Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region. That is the ride.
Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region → Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w → Capo Palinuro is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Capo Palinuro → back through Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park w → Punta Licosa and the Mount Stella region is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.