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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From Macerata it runs 419 km to Macerata; allow about 6 h 44 of riding. It goes by way of Teatro Ventidio Basso, The Clitunno Tempietto and back through Teatro Ventidio Basso. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Macerata is a hill town that takes its culture seriously, and the Teatro Lauro Rossi is the polished little jewel in the middle of it. Built in the second half of the eighteenth century in the heart of the old centre, it is a classic Italian horseshoe theatre with tiers of boxes in cream and gold, and it carries the name of Lauro Rossi, a nineteenth-century composer born in the town. If the doors are open, step in for a look; the room is intimate enough that you can imagine the whole town crammed in for a premiere, gossiping between acts.
Read the complete Teatro Lauro Rossi write-up.
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Teatro Lauro Rossi is where the day begins. Next is Teatro Ventidio Basso.
Ascoli Piceno is made of travertine, and in the right light the whole town looks like it has been carved from cream. The pale stone paves the great Piazza del Popolo and lines the arcades and towers, and the theatre is one of the quiet treats of a place that rarely makes the big lists. It is named after Ventidio Basso, a local boy who rose from humble beginnings to become a general under Mark Antony, defeated the Parthians in the first century BC and, so the story goes, was the first Roman to hold a triumph over them. The people of Ascoli remember it with civic pride.
Read the complete Teatro Ventidio Basso write-up.
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Teatro Ventidio Basso comes up about 108 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 208 km into the recorded legs you reach The Clitunno Tempietto. Next is back through Teatro Ventidio Basso.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Ventidio Basso write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Teatro Ventidio Basso, late in the day. Next is Teatro Lauro Rossi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Lauro Rossi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Teatro Lauro Rossi. That is the ride.
Teatro Lauro Rossi → Teatro Ventidio Basso is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Ventidio Basso → The Clitunno Tempietto is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Clitunno Tempietto → back through Teatro Ventidio Basso is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Teatro Ventidio Basso → Teatro Lauro Rossi is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.