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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 278 km round trip from Sant'Agata Feltria - roughly 4 h 34 in the saddle. The stops in between: Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe, Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola and back through Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe. The line favours views over speed.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Teatro Angelo Mariani is where the day begins. Next is Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe, 75 km on.
For centuries the sea reached this field. Classe was the port of Ravenna, a harbour built by Augustus to station the Roman Adriatic fleet, and merchants, sailors and soldiers filled its quays until the river silt choked the channels and the coast crept east. Today the port is farmland, the sea is five kilometres off, and the great church of Sant'Apollinare stands alone among the fields, a tall brick basilica with a round bell tower, rising from the plain like a ship stranded on a sandbank. It was consecrated in 549, in the time of Justinian, and stands over the tomb of the first bishop of Ravenna, Apollinaris, who is said to have been a disciple of Saint Peter. UNESCO listed the early Christian monuments of Ravenna in 1996.
Read the complete Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola, 75 km on.
The Santerno valley climbs south from Imola into the Apennines toward Tuscany, and about fifteen kilometres up, the river cuts through a ridge of shining grey-white rock. This is the western end of the Vena del Gesso Romagnola, the gypsum vein that runs across this part of Romagna, and Monte Penzola rises above the village of Borgo Tossignano, with Fontanelice and Casalfiumanese nearby.
Read the complete Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 140 km into the recorded legs you reach Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola. Next is back through Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe, 75 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe, late in the day. Next is 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 at Teatro Angelo Mariani. That is the ride.
Teatro Angelo Mariani → Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe → Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola → back through Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe → Teatro Angelo Mariani is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.