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 418 km round trip from Ascoli Piceno - roughly 6 h 14 in the saddle. It goes by way of Teatro dell'Aquila, Teatro Serpente Aureo, Teatro Lauro Rossi and back through Teatro Serpente Aureo. 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 dell'Aquila.
Fermo sits on a hill above the Adriatic, and its theatre is the jewel inside the town. The Teatro dell'Aquila was built in the late eighteenth century, designed by the architect Cosimo Morelli, and it is one of the largest and finest historic theatres in the Marche, a region that has an extraordinary number of them, almost every town having its own little opera house. Inside, tiers of gilded boxes rise in a horseshoe around the stalls, and the painted ceiling glows above. If you can catch a performance, or join a guided visit, do so.
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Teatro dell'Aquila comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teatro Serpente Aureo.
Offida sits on a ridge in the southern Marche, a small walled town of brick and stone looking across rolling hills towards the Adriatic in one direction and the Monti Sibillini in the other. In the arcaded town hall on the main square hides one of the region's many jewel-box theatres, the Serpente Aureo, the Golden Serpent, with its horseshoe of boxes, gilded decoration and painted ceiling. The Marche has dozens of these little opera houses, built when every proud town wanted its own stage, and this one is among the prettiest, small enough that you feel you are in someone's very ornate living room.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Serpente Aureo. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro Serpente Aureo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Serpente Aureo write-up.
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back through Teatro Serpente Aureo sits at 191 km, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro dell'Aquila.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro dell'Aquila write-up.
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back through Teatro dell'Aquila comes up about 347 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Teatro Ventidio Basso closes the day.
Teatro Ventidio Basso → Teatro dell'Aquila is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro dell'Aquila → Teatro Serpente Aureo is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Serpente Aureo → Teatro Lauro Rossi is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Lauro Rossi → back through Teatro Serpente Aureo is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Serpente Aureo → back through Teatro dell'Aquila is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro dell'Aquila → Teatro Ventidio Basso is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.