CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From San Giorgio del Sannio it runs 278 km to San Giorgio del Sannio; allow about 4 h 11 of riding. The stops in between: 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with, Historic Centre of Naples, Torre Annunziata: Villa A and back through Historic Centre of Naples.
This part of the ride is 69 km of The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum → 18th-Century Royal Palace.
East of Benevento, the Via Appia leaves the Calore valley and heads into the green, rolling hills of Irpinia on its long way to Brindisi, and near Venticano and Pietradefusi you are travelling over one of its quieter stretches. The road the Romans laid here is mostly lost under fields and later tracks, but the line still guides the landscape, and a short way south-east lie the remains of Aeclanum, near Mirabella Eclano, a Roman town that grew rich on the traffic. Benevento itself was the great junction: from here the original Appia ran over the hills to Venusia and Tarentum, while the Emperor Trajan built a faster route, the Via Traiana, through the plains of Apulia. His triumphal arch, raised in AD 114, still stands in Benevento, its reliefs remarkably sharp.
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The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum is where the day begins. 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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18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with comes up 43 km in. 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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86 km in you reach Historic Centre of Naples. Next is Torre Annunziata: Villa A.
In the busy, scruffy town of Torre Annunziata, on the coast south of Naples, a high wall hides one of the most extraordinary Roman villas ever found. Villa A at Oplontis, often called the Villa of Poppaea because it is thought to have belonged to the family of Nero's second wife, was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 and rediscovered in the eighteenth century, with large-scale excavations in the twentieth. It is part of the UNESCO site that includes Pompeii and Herculaneum, but sees a fraction of their visitors, which is one of its great pleasures.
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Torre Annunziata: Villa A, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Centre of Naples.
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Read the complete Historic Centre of Naples write-up.
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back through Historic Centre of Naples sits at 171 km, about halfway. Next is back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with.
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Read the complete 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with write-up.
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back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with comes up 214 km in. Next is The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum closes the day.
The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum → 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with is 69 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 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Naples → Torre Annunziata: Villa A is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre Annunziata: Villa A → back through Historic Centre of Naples is 26 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 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with → The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.