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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431 km from San Severino Marche to San Severino Marche, about 7 h 35 of riding. The stops in between: Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Historic Centre of Urbino and San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan. It crosses from Italy into San Marino - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
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Teatro Feronia 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 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
The people of Jesi take their opera seriously, and they have a reason. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born here in 1710, and by the time he died in 1736, at the age of twenty-six, he had written the Stabat Mater and the comic opera La serva padrona, two works that changed music. The theatre that carries his name was opened in 1798, a neoclassical jewel with tiers of boxes and a good-sized stage, in the heart of the old town on the main square. It still has a season, and a ticket for an evening performance is a treat if you are staying nearby.
Read the complete Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi write-up.
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about 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Next is Historic Centre of Urbino.
Urbino is a whole hill turned into an idea. In the fifteenth century Federico da Montefeltro, a professional soldier who earned a fortune leading other people's armies, used it to build one of the most refined courts in Renaissance Italy, and the town that grew around his palace is still almost entirely brick and stone of that age. It was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1998, and it remains a lively university town rather than a museum.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Urbino write-up.
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Historic Centre of Urbino, about halfway. Next is San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan.
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 sits at 190 km, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Centre of Urbino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Urbino write-up.
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back through Historic Centre of Urbino comes up about 272 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi write-up.
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about 349 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Next is back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Gentile da Fabriano write-up.
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back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, late in the day. Next is Teatro Feronia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
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The route ends here after 431 km.
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 → Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi → Historic Centre of Urbino is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Centre of Urbino → San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titan → back through Historic Centre of Urbino is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of Urbino → back through Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Teatro Giovanni Battista Pergolesi → back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → Teatro Feronia is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.