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 241 km round trip from Macerata - roughly 4 h 17 in the saddle. On the way it passes Teatro Feronia, Teatro Gentile da Fabriano, Ville d'Assise and back through Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. 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 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.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
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Teatro Feronia comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. 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.
Read the complete Ville d'Assise write-up.
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Ville d'Assise, about halfway. 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 sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro Feronia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Teatro Feronia comes up about 214 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Teatro Lauro Rossi closes the day.
Teatro Lauro Rossi → Teatro Feronia is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → Teatro Lauro Rossi is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.