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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Campello sul Clitunno it runs 339 km to Campello sul Clitunno; allow about 5 h of riding. On the way it passes Teatro Feronia, Teatro Ventidio Basso and back through Teatro Feronia. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
A few steps from the Via Flaminia, in the green flatland below Spoleto, there is a little building that scholars have argued about for centuries. The Tempietto del Clitunno looks like a miniature Roman temple, with a gabled front, columns and a carved cornice, but it is actually an early medieval church, made largely of reused Roman pieces and probably dating from somewhere between late antiquity and the time of the Lombards. It is among the group of Lombard sites in Italy that UNESCO listed in 2011, and part of its charm is that nobody is quite sure who built it or when.
Read the complete The Clitunno Tempietto write-up.
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The Clitunno Tempietto 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 81 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teatro Ventidio Basso.
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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about 170 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Ventidio Basso. Next is back through Teatro Feronia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
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back through Teatro Feronia, late in the day. Next is The Clitunno Tempietto.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Clitunno Tempietto write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The Clitunno Tempietto. That is the ride.
The Clitunno Tempietto → Teatro Feronia is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Feronia → Teatro Ventidio Basso is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Ventidio Basso → back through Teatro Feronia is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Teatro Feronia → The Clitunno Tempietto is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.