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 430 km round trip from Castelluccio dei Sauri - roughly 7 h 55 in the saddle. The stops in between: The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu, 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with, Historic Centre of Naples and back through Historic Centre of Naples. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The ride follows The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu → 18th-Century Royal Palace for 102 km.
There is nothing here that announces itself. What you have is a long, almost featureless landscape of grain, stubble and the odd masseria, and under it the line of a Roman road. The Via Traiana was commissioned by the emperor Trajan around 109 AD as a faster, drier alternative to the old Appia between Benevento and Brindisi, and the stretch from Aecae to Herdonia is one of the places where you can follow its logic: flat, direct, and aimed at the next town.
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The Appia Traiana from Aecae to Herdonia is where the day begins. Next is The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu.
Trajan was an emperor who liked roads, and in about AD 109 he opened a new one to shorten the journey from Rome to Brindisi, the port for Greece and the East. The old Via Appia went the long way round, down through the marshes and the coast, and the Via Traiana cut inland from Benevento through the hills of Irpinia and across the Apulian plain. This section, from Beneventum toward the old stop of Aequum Tuticum near modern Ariano Irpino, crosses a country of rolling grain fields, hill villages and wind turbines turning on the ridges.
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The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
When Charles of Bourbon, king of Naples, decided to build a royal palace to rival Versailles, he did not do things by halves. The Reggia di Caserta, begun in 1752 to a design by Luigi Vanvitelli, is one of the largest royal palaces in the world, with some twelve hundred rooms, four inner courtyards, a theatre and a grand staircase that has appeared in films including Star Wars, where it stood in for the palace of Naboo. Behind it, a park stretches for three kilometres up the hillside, with fountains, statues and a long chain of pools and cascades fed by an aqueduct that Vanvitelli built specially, ending at a great waterfall at the top.
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about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with. Next is Historic Centre of Naples.
Naples is not a city you ride through so much as one you survive and then fall in love with. The historic centre, a UNESCO site since 1995, sits on the street plan of Neapolis, the Greek new city founded around the sixth century BC, and the three ancient decumani still run straight through it, the most famous being Spaccanapoli, the street that splits Naples in two. Along them, churches, palaces, shrines, workshops and laundry-hung alleys are packed together with an intensity found nowhere else in Europe.
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Historic Centre of Naples, about halfway. Next is 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
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18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with sits at 205 km, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Centre of Naples.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Historic Centre of Naples comes up about 260 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
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about 293 km into the recorded legs you reach back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with. Next is back through The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu, late in the day. Next is The Appia Traiana from Aecae to Herdonia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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The route ends here after 430 km.
The Appia Traiana from Aecae to Herdonia → The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → Historic Centre of Naples is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Naples → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → back through Historic Centre of Naples is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of Naples → back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → back through The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequu → The Appia Traiana from Aecae to Herdonia is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.