CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Borgo Maggiore it runs 448 km to Borgo Maggiore; allow about 8 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Historic Centre of Urbino, Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, Teatro Feronia and Teatro dell'Aquila. 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 Historic Centre of Urbino.
Urbino is a whole hill turned into an idea. In the fifteenth century Federico da Montefeltro, a professional soldier who earned a fortune leading other people's armies, used it to build one of the most refined courts in Renaissance Italy, and the town that grew around his palace is still almost entirely brick and stone of that age. It was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1998, and it remains a lively university town rather than a museum.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Urbino write-up.
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Historic Centre of Urbino comes up 49 km in. Next is Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
Paper made Fabriano. Since at least the thirteenth century, craftsmen in this inland town of the Marche have made paper, and they are credited with key innovations: the use of animal gelatine to size the sheets and, most famously, the watermark. Fabriano paper is still made here today, and the Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, in a former monastery, shows the old techniques with working demonstrations. Your banknotes may well have been printed on paper from this town.
Read the complete Teatro Gentile da Fabriano write-up.
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98 km in you reach Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. Next is Teatro Feronia.
San Severino Marche has one of the most unusual town squares in Italy. The Piazza del Popolo is an elongated ellipse, lined with arcades and palaces, and it was originally a market space outside the walls of the medieval town on the hill above. Today it is the heart of a town of eight thousand people in the valley of the Potenza river, in the inland Marche, and the Teatro Feronia stands on it, an elegant nineteenth-century theatre named after an ancient Italic goddess of fertility and freedom.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
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Teatro Feronia, about halfway. Next is Teatro dell'Aquila.
Fermo sits on a hill above the Adriatic, and its theatre is the jewel inside the town. The Teatro dell'Aquila was built in the late eighteenth century, designed by the architect Cosimo Morelli, and it is one of the largest and finest historic theatres in the Marche, a region that has an extraordinary number of them, almost every town having its own little opera house. Inside, tiers of gilded boxes rise in a horseshoe around the stalls, and the painted ceiling glows above. If you can catch a performance, or join a guided visit, do so.
Read the complete Teatro dell'Aquila write-up.
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Teatro dell'Aquila sits at 196 km, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro Feronia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
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back through Teatro Feronia comes up 245 km in. Next is back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Gentile da Fabriano write-up.
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294 km in you reach back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. Next is back through Historic Centre of Urbino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Urbino write-up.
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back through Historic Centre of Urbino, late in the day. 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.
The route ends here after 448 km.
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan → Historic Centre of Urbino is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Urbino → Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → Teatro Feronia is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Feronia → Teatro dell'Aquila is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro dell'Aquila → back through Teatro Feronia is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Feronia → back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → back through Historic Centre of Urbino is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Centre of Urbino → San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.