Why this ride
317 km from Alberobello to Alberobello, about 5 h 48 of riding. It goes by way of Tarentum, The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum, The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast and Brundisium. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The Trulli of Alberobello and Brundisium
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 317 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 48
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Scenic road chapters
The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum → The Appia Traiana along the
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 37 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 37 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. The Trulli of Alberobello
Alberobello is a town of grey stone cones, with some fifteen hundred of them, called trulli, packed into two hillside districts, Rione Monti and Aia Piccola. The roofs are built from flat limestone slabs laid dry, without mortar, in overlapping rings until the cone closes at the top, and many of them carry a whitewashed symbol painted on the roof, some Christian, some older and more mysterious. UNESCO listed the town in 1996.
Read the complete The Trulli of Alberobello write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
The Trulli of Alberobello is where the day begins. Next is Tarentum.
2. Tarentum
Taranto is a city between two seas. The old town sits on a small island between the Mar Grande, an open bay of the Gulf of Taranto, and the Mar Piccolo, an inner lagoon, connected to the mainland by bridges, including a swing bridge that opens to let warships pass into the naval base. Founded by Spartan colonists in the eighth century BC as Taras, it became one of the richest and most powerful cities of Magna Graecia, the Greek world in southern Italy, before falling to Rome.
Read the complete Tarentum write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Tarentum comes up 41 km in. Next is The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum.
3. The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum
The last stretch of the Via Appia ran across this flat, sun-drenched part of Puglia toward Brundisium, the port from which Romans sailed to Greece and the East. The road, begun in 312 BC from Rome, was the queen of roads, and the whole route became a UNESCO site in 2024. The section between the stations the Romans called Mesochorum and Scamnum passes near Oria and Francavilla Fontana, and while little of the original paving survives here, the line of the road still shapes the landscape, with modern roads, field boundaries and farm tracks following its course.
Read the complete The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
81 km in you reach The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum. Next is The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast.
4. The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast
Between Ostuni and Brindisi, along the Adriatic coast of Puglia, ran the Via Appia Traiana, a road built by the emperor Trajan in the early second century as a faster alternative to the old Appian Way, carrying traffic to the port of Brundisium, the gateway to Greece and the East. In 2024, stretches of both roads were inscribed by UNESCO as Via Appia, Regina Viarum. Here the old route followed the coastal plain through olive groves, and traces of it, together with ancient settlements, can be found near the sea.
Read the complete The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast, about halfway. Next is Brundisium.
5. Brundisium
Brindisi is where the Appian Way ends, and the Romans knew it as Brundisium. The old road ran from Rome across southern Italy to this harbour, the gateway to Greece and the East, and a tall Roman column near the waterfront marks its final stretch; a second column stood beside it until it was taken to Lecce in the seventeenth century. The harbour itself is a long, sheltered inlet, a natural port that has served merchants, crusaders and armies for more than two thousand years.
Read the complete Brundisium write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Brundisium sits at 162 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast.
6. back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast comes up 203 km in. Next is back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum.
7. back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
243 km in you reach back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum. Next is back through Tarentum.
8. back through Tarentum
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tarentum write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Tarentum, late in the day. Next is The Trulli of Alberobello.
9. The Trulli of Alberobello
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Trulli of Alberobello write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
The route ends here after 317 km.
Leg by leg
The Trulli of Alberobello to Tarentum
The Trulli of Alberobello → Tarentum is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tarentum to The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum
Tarentum → The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum to The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast
The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum → The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast to Brundisium
The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast → Brundisium is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brundisium to back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast
Brundisium → back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast to back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum
back through The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast → back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum to back through Tarentum
back through The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum → back through Tarentum is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tarentum to The Trulli of Alberobello
back through Tarentum → The Trulli of Alberobello is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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