CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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85 km from Terracina to Terracina, about 1 h 58 of riding. On the way it passes The Via Appia in Fundi, The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae and back through The Via Appia in Fundi. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Terracina is the point where the Via Appia, the queen of roads, meets the sea after its long straight run from Rome across the Pontine plain. The Romans built the road in 312 BC under the censor Appius Claudius, and for its time it was a marvel: paved, drained and as straight as engineering allowed, linking Rome to Capua and later to Brindisi. The stretch through the Pontine marshes was notorious for mosquitoes and malaria, and travellers often took a canal boat alongside the road instead, as the poet Horace describes in one of his satires.
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Via Appia. Regina Viarum is where the day begins. Next is The Via Appia in Fundi.
The Via Appia, the queen of Roman roads, runs straight through the middle of Fondi, and the town's grid of streets still follows the plan of the Roman settlement it once was. Built from 312 BC to link Rome with Capua and later extended to Brindisi, the Appia crossed the coastal plain here, between the mountains and the sea, and Fondi grew up around it as a stopping place. In the historic centre, the main street follows the line of the ancient road, and stretches of the Roman walls survive, built of huge polygonal blocks. The Via Appia was recognised by UNESCO in 2024 as a World Heritage Site, with Fondi as one of its components.
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The Via Appia in Fundi comes up 23 km in. Next is The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae.
The queen of roads, the Romans called it: the Via Appia, begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, ran from Rome to Capua and later on to Brindisi, the gateway to Greece and the East. Near Formia, the old road comes down from the hills of Itri to the coast of the Gulf of Gaeta, and a stretch of it, with its paving stones and roadside monuments, survives in the countryside. In 2024, UNESCO listed the Via Appia as a whole, and this section between the eighty-third mile from Rome and the ancient town of Formiae is one of its pieces.
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46 km in you reach The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae. Next is back through The Via Appia in Fundi.
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back through The Via Appia in Fundi, late in the day. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 23 km on.
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Back at Via Appia. Regina Viarum. That is the ride.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → The Via Appia in Fundi is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia in Fundi → The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae → back through The Via Appia in Fundi is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia in Fundi → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.