Why this ride
A 296 km round trip from Lanuvio - roughly 6 h 01 in the saddle. On the way it passes Appia. Regina Viarum, The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S and back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Via Appia. Regina Viarum and The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 296 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 01
- 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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
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. Via Appia. Regina Viarum
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.
Read the complete Via Appia. Regina Viarum write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Via Appia. Regina Viarum is where the day begins. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 77 km on.
2. Via Appia. Regina Viarum
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.
Read the complete Via Appia. Regina Viarum write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Via Appia. Regina Viarum comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S.
3. The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S
The Via Appia, the Queen of Roads, ran from Rome to Brindisi, and in 2024 UNESCO inscribed long stretches of it as a single World Heritage site. Near Mondragone, on the coast of northern Campania, the road passes the site of Sinuessa, a Roman colony that once guarded the route where it reached the sea after crossing the coastal plains from the north. Not a great deal stands above ground today, so this is a place where you read the landscape rather than tour the ruins.
Read the complete The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 148 km into the recorded legs you reach The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S. Next is back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 77 km on.
4. back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Via Appia. Regina Viarum write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, late in the day.
5. Via Appia. Regina Viarum
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Via Appia. Regina Viarum write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Via Appia. Regina Viarum. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Via Appia. Regina Viarum to Via Appia. Regina Viarum
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum to The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S to back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum
The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S → back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum to Via Appia. Regina Viarum
back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.