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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 169 km round trip from Pratovecchio - roughly 3 h 52 in the saddle. It goes by way of Teatro Angelo Mariani, Evaporiti di San Leo and back through Teatro Angelo Mariani. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 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.
Read the complete Teatro Angelo Mariani write-up.
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Teatro Angelo Mariani comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Evaporiti di San Leo.
San Leo stands on a limestone block that rises sheer out of the Marecchia valley, and from a distance it looks like a fortress that nobody could possibly have captured. The ground under it tells a longer and stranger story. The evaporite rocks in this area, gypsum and associated salts, were laid down around six million years ago, when the Mediterranean nearly dried out in what geologists call the Messinian salinity crisis. Seawater evaporated, minerals crystallised, and the beds you see in the cuttings are the leftovers of that event.
Read the complete Evaporiti di San Leo write-up.
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about 84 km into the recorded legs you reach Evaporiti di San Leo. 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, late in the day. Next is 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 at Sasso Fratino. That is the ride.
Sasso Fratino → Teatro Angelo Mariani is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Angelo Mariani → Evaporiti di San Leo is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Evaporiti di San Leo → back through Teatro Angelo Mariani is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Angelo Mariani → Sasso Fratino is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.