Why this ride
A 393 km round trip from Rome - roughly 6 h 50 in the saddle. It goes by way of Monte Raschio, Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti and back through Monte Raschio. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The Via Appia in Rome and Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 393 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 50
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. The Via Appia in Rome
Rome's regina viarum, the queen of roads, leaves the city through the Porta San Sebastiano and heads south-east toward Capua and eventually Brindisi. It was begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, and the first miles out of Rome are now protected within the Parco Regionale dell'Appia Antica. The stretch of the old road is lined with tombs, ruins of villas, catacombs and umbrella pines, and the original paving stones, huge polygonal basalt blocks, still surface parts of it.
Read the complete The Via Appia in Rome write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The Via Appia in Rome is where the day begins. Next is Monte Raschio.
2. Monte Raschio
Beech trees usually need altitude and cool weather in central Italy, so it is a surprise to find a beech forest at only about five hundred metres on Monte Raschio, a low volcanic hill near Oriolo Romano, north-west of Rome. The forest survives here thanks to a local microclimate, with humidity from Lake Bracciano and the volcanic soils, and it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a site that spans many countries.
Read the complete Monte Raschio write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Monte Raschio comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti.
3. Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-born composer who made his career in America, and in 1958 he decided that Spoleto, a small hill town in Umbria, would be the right home for a festival that brought together artists from both sides of the Atlantic. That is the origin of the Festival dei Due Mondi, the Festival of Two Worlds, which still fills the town with opera, theatre, dance and music every year in late June and July. The theatre that bears his name, the Teatro Nuovo, was built in the nineteenth century and is the main stage, a handsome horseshoe with gilt boxes and a painted ceiling.
Read the complete Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 196 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. Next is back through Monte Raschio.
4. back through Monte Raschio
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monte Raschio write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Monte Raschio, late in the day. Next is The Via Appia in Rome.
5. The Via Appia in Rome
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Via Appia in Rome write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at The Via Appia in Rome. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
The Via Appia in Rome to Monte Raschio
The Via Appia in Rome → Monte Raschio is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monte Raschio to Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Monte Raschio → Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti to back through Monte Raschio
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti → back through Monte Raschio is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Monte Raschio to The Via Appia in Rome
back through Monte Raschio → The Via Appia in Rome is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.