Why this ride
From Spoleto it runs 203 km to Spoleto; allow about 3 h 21 of riding. It goes by way of Assisi, Teatro Gentile da Fabriano and back through Assisi. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti and Teatro Gentile da Fabriano
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 203 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 21
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-born composer who made his career in America, and in 1958 he decided that Spoleto, a small hill town in Umbria, would be the right home for a festival that brought together artists from both sides of the Atlantic. That is the origin of the Festival dei Due Mondi, the Festival of Two Worlds, which still fills the town with opera, theatre, dance and music every year in late June and July. The theatre that bears his name, the Teatro Nuovo, was built in the nineteenth century and is the main stage, a handsome horseshoe with gilt boxes and a painted ceiling.
Read the complete Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti is where the day begins. Next is Assisi.
2. Assisi
From the valley floor Assisi looks like a long pale ribbon draped across the lower slope of Monte Subasio, and the colour comes from the mountain itself. The town is built of Subasio stone, a limestone that ranges from cream to rose, and in the evening light the whole place glows pink. It is, of course, the town of Francis, the merchant's son who gave away everything in the early thirteenth century and founded the Franciscan order, and of Clare, who followed him. The great basilica built over his tomb, begun in 1228, has two churches one above the other, and the frescoes inside, including the cycle of the saint's life traditionally attributed to Giotto, changed the course of European painting.
Read the complete Assisi write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Assisi comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teatro Gentile da Fabriano.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Gentile da Fabriano. Next is back through Assisi.
4. back through Assisi
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Assisi write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Assisi, late in the day. Next is Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti.
5. Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti to Assisi
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti → Assisi is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Assisi to Teatro Gentile da Fabriano
Assisi → Teatro Gentile da Fabriano is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Gentile da Fabriano to back through Assisi
Teatro Gentile da Fabriano → back through Assisi is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Assisi to Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
back through Assisi → Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.