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 505 km round trip from Fermo - roughly 7 h 56 in the saddle. On the way it passes Teatro Serpente Aureo, Teatro Feronia, Teatro Gentile da Fabriano and Ville d'Assise. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Teatro dell'Aquila is where the day begins. Next is Teatro Serpente Aureo.
Offida sits on a ridge in the southern Marche, a small walled town of brick and stone looking across rolling hills towards the Adriatic in one direction and the Monti Sibillini in the other. In the arcaded town hall on the main square hides one of the region's many jewel-box theatres, the Serpente Aureo, the Golden Serpent, with its horseshoe of boxes, gilded decoration and painted ceiling. The Marche has dozens of these little opera houses, built when every proud town wanted its own stage, and this one is among the prettiest, small enough that you feel you are in someone's very ornate living room.
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Teatro Serpente Aureo comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 158 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Feronia. 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.
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Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, about halfway. Next is Ville d'Assise.
Assisi sits on the western flank of Monte Subasio, and the first thing you notice is the colour. The stone, quarried from the mountain itself, is a pale pink-white that glows at sunset, and the whole town seems to hang off the slope above the Umbrian plain. It was the home of Saint Francis, born here around 1181, who gave up his father's cloth business to live in poverty, and the town built one of the great pilgrimage churches of Christendom around his tomb. The Basilica of San Francesco has two layers of frescoes by Giotto and his circle, and was badly shaken by the earthquake of 1997, when part of the vault fell. It reopened after careful restoration, and UNESCO listed Assisi in 2000.
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Ville d'Assise sits at 191 km, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
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back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano comes up about 308 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Teatro Feronia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
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about 345 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Teatro Feronia. Next is back through Teatro Serpente Aureo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Serpente Aureo write-up.
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back through Teatro Serpente Aureo, late in the day. Next is Teatro dell'Aquila.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro dell'Aquila write-up.
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The route ends here after 505 km.
Teatro dell'Aquila → Teatro Serpente Aureo is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Serpente Aureo → Teatro Feronia is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Feronia → Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → Ville d'Assise is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ville d'Assise → back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → back through Teatro Feronia is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Feronia → back through Teatro Serpente Aureo is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Teatro Serpente Aureo → Teatro dell'Aquila is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.