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 Ascoli Piceno it runs 414 km to Ascoli Piceno; allow about 5 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Teatro Lauro Rossi, Assisi and back through Teatro Lauro Rossi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Teatro Lauro Rossi.
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.
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Teatro Lauro Rossi comes up about 107 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 206 km into the recorded legs you reach Assisi. Next is back through Teatro Lauro Rossi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Lauro Rossi write-up.
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back through Teatro Lauro Rossi, late in the day. Next is 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 at Teatro Ventidio Basso. That is the ride.
Teatro Ventidio Basso → Teatro Lauro Rossi is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Lauro Rossi → Assisi is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Assisi → back through Teatro Lauro Rossi is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Teatro Lauro Rossi → Teatro Ventidio Basso is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.