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 246 km round trip from Sezze - roughly 4 h 46 in the saddle. On the way it passes Appia. Regina Viarum, The Via Appia in Rome, Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tar and back through The Via Appia in Rome. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
South of the Alban Hills, the Via Appia drops onto the Pontine plain and runs dead straight for mile after mile, as if the Roman engineers had laid it with a ruler, which in a sense they did. This was the Regina Viarum, the queen of roads, begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus to link Rome with Capua, and later extended to Brindisi. Here, near Sezze Scalo and Latina, the road crossed the Pontine Marshes, a malarial swamp that defeated would-be drainers from the Romans to the popes. Travellers sometimes took a canal boat alongside the road instead, and the poet Horace complained about the mosquitoes and the frogs keeping him awake on that very journey.
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Via Appia. Regina Viarum is where the day begins. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 43 km on.
The Romans called it the queen of roads, and in 2024 UNESCO agreed, listing the Via Appia from Rome to Brindisi as a World Heritage site. Begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, it was the first great Roman road, built to move armies south toward Campania and later extended to the port of Brindisi, the gateway to Greece and the East.
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Via Appia. Regina Viarum comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach The Via Appia in Rome. Next is Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tar.
The Etruscans built their houses of wood and mud brick, which is why so few survive, and they built their tombs of rock, which is why we know them best through their dead. The Banditaccia necropolis at Cerveteri, north-west of Rome, is a city of tombs: great round tumuli covered in grass, cut into the volcanic tufa and laid out along streets, with chambers inside carved to look like houses, with beds, chairs, columns and beams. The necropolis, together with the painted tombs of Tarquinia further north, was listed by UNESCO in 2004, and walking its lanes is one of the most atmospheric experiences in central Italy.
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Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tar, about halfway. Next is back through The Via Appia in Rome.
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back through The Via Appia in Rome sits at 171 km, about halfway. Next is back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 42 km on.
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back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum comes up about 209 km into the recorded legs.
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Via Appia. Regina Viarum closes the day.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → The Via Appia in Rome is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia in Rome → Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tar is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tar → back through The Via Appia in Rome is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia in Rome → back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.