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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From Borgo Maggiore it runs 345 km to Borgo Maggiore; allow about 6 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes Teatro Angelo Mariani, Sasso Fratino, Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany and back through Sasso Fratino. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from San Marino into Italy - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
San Marino is a whole country balanced on the ridge of a single mountain, and you feel it the moment the road starts to climb out of the coastal plain. Monte Titano rises steeply from the hills behind Rimini, a long limestone crest with sheer cliffs on its eastern side, and the old town of San Marino clings to the top with three towers strung along the ridge like stitches. The first, Guaita, is the oldest and the most photographed; the second, Cesta, sits on the highest point; the third, Montale, is a slender lookout you can only see from outside.
Read the complete San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan write-up.
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San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan is where the day begins. Next is Teatro Angelo Mariani.
Sant'Agata Feltria is a small hill town in the upper Marecchia valley, with a castle on a rock, steep streets and one of the oldest wooden theatres in Italy. The Teatro Angelo Mariani dates from the early seventeenth century and has been rebuilt and restored over the centuries, with tiers of wooden boxes painted in soft colours around a small stage. It is named after Angelo Mariani, a nineteenth-century conductor who was a close collaborator of Verdi. The theatre is intimate, seating a few hundred at most, and it still hosts concerts and plays.
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Teatro Angelo Mariani comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sasso Fratino.
Sasso Fratino is a forest you are not allowed to enter, and that is precisely the point. High on the Romagna side of the Apennine ridge, in the national park of the Casentino forests, it was declared Italy's first integral nature reserve in 1959, and since then nature has been left almost entirely to itself. Ancient beech woods cling to steep slopes, with silver fir, maple and ash mixed in, and dead trees are left to rot where they fall, feeding fungi, beetles and birds. In 2017 it became part of the transnational World Heritage listing of ancient beech forests of Europe.
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about 106 km into the recorded legs you reach Sasso Fratino. Next is Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany.
The Medici left behind a necklace of villas around Florence, and the group of them listed by UNESCO in 2013 shows how a banking family turned itself into a ruling dynasty with the help of architecture. Humanists, painters and poets were invited to talk and eat in these gardens, which is where some of the Renaissance really happened.
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Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany, about halfway. Next is back through Sasso Fratino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sasso Fratino write-up.
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back through Sasso Fratino sits at 169 km, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro Angelo Mariani.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Angelo Mariani write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Teatro Angelo Mariani comes up about 308 km into the recorded legs. Next is San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan closes the day.
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan → Teatro Angelo Mariani is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Angelo Mariani → Sasso Fratino is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sasso Fratino → Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany → back through Sasso Fratino is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sasso Fratino → back through Teatro Angelo Mariani is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Angelo Mariani → San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.