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 337 km to Borgo Maggiore; allow about 6 h 26 of riding. On the way it passes Sasso Fratino, Villa de la Petraia 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. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 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.
Read the complete Sasso Fratino write-up.
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Sasso Fratino comes up about 98 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa de la Petraia.
La Petraia stands on the slope above Castello, on the north-western edge of Florence, and the first thing you notice is its tower, a leftover from the medieval fortress that stood here before the Medici made it a villa. Ferdinando de' Medici bought it in the 1560s and had Buontalenti reshape it, keeping the tower and building around it, so that the house looks like a small castle that learned manners. The garden below is laid out in terraces, with a fountain topped by a Venus wringing out her hair, a famous work by Giambologna.
Read the complete Villa de la Petraia write-up.
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about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa de la Petraia. Next is back through Sasso Fratino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sasso Fratino write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sasso Fratino, 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.
Back at San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan. That is the ride.
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan → Sasso Fratino is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sasso Fratino → Villa de la Petraia is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa de la Petraia → back through Sasso Fratino is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sasso Fratino → San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.