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 409 km round trip from Fabriano - roughly 7 h 05 in the saddle. On the way it passes Teatro Bramante, Sasso Fratino and back through Teatro Bramante. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Teatro Bramante.
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 comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sasso Fratino.
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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about 205 km into the recorded legs you reach Sasso Fratino. Next is back through Teatro Bramante.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Bramante write-up.
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back through Teatro Bramante, late in the day. Next is 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 at Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. That is the ride.
Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → Teatro Bramante is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Bramante → Sasso Fratino is 129 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sasso Fratino → back through Teatro Bramante is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Teatro Bramante → Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.