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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A 296 km round trip from Urbania - roughly 4 h 39 in the saddle. It goes by way of Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, The Clitunno Tempietto and back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Urbania has had three names. It began as Castel delle Ripe, became Casteldurante in the thirteenth century, and was renamed in 1636 when Pope Urban VIII took over the duchy and gave it his own. In the Renaissance it was a pottery town, famous for majolica, the tin-glazed painted earthenware that Duke Guidobaldo and his court sent as gifts around Europe, and the ceramics still sold in the shops carry on that tradition. The theatre that bears the name of Bramante, the great architect who was born in nearby Fermignano, stands in the town centre, a small, intimate house with tiers of boxes in the Italian manner, and the town itself is a small walled place on a bend of the Metauro river, with brick arcades and a handsome ducal palace.
Read the complete Teatro Bramante write-up.
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Teatro Bramante is where the day begins. 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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Teatro Gentile da Fabriano comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Clitunno Tempietto.
A few steps from the Via Flaminia, in the green flatland below Spoleto, there is a little building that scholars have argued about for centuries. The Tempietto del Clitunno looks like a miniature Roman temple, with a gabled front, columns and a carved cornice, but it is actually an early medieval church, made largely of reused Roman pieces and probably dating from somewhere between late antiquity and the time of the Lombards. It is among the group of Lombard sites in Italy that UNESCO listed in 2011, and part of its charm is that nobody is quite sure who built it or when.
Read the complete The Clitunno Tempietto write-up.
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about 148 km into the recorded legs you reach The Clitunno Tempietto. Next is back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Gentile da Fabriano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, late in the day. Next is Teatro Bramante.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Bramante write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Teatro Bramante. That is the ride.
Teatro Bramante → Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → The Clitunno Tempietto is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Clitunno Tempietto → back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → Teatro Bramante is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.