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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197 km from Villa Adriana to Villa Adriana, about 4 h 16 of riding. It goes by way of The Via Appia in Rome, Appia. Regina Viarum, back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum and back through The Via Appia in Rome. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 29 km this is Mille Miglia Historic Route Core, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Hadrian never did anything by halves. Below the hill town of Tivoli, on the plain east of Rome, the emperor built himself a retreat that was less a villa than a private city: palaces, baths, libraries, theatres, gardens and long reflecting pools spread over more than a hundred hectares. Villa Adriana was constructed in the early second century AD, and Hadrian, a restless traveller and amateur architect, filled it with references to places he had seen, most famously the Canopus, a long pool lined with columns and statues meant to evoke the Egyptian canal of that name. Walking through the ruins today, among cypresses and olive trees, you get a sense of a man trying to bring the whole empire home.
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Villa Adriana is where the day begins. 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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The Via Appia in Rome comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 35 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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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Via Appia. Regina Viarum.
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, about halfway. Next is back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 35 km on.
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back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Via Appia in Rome.
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back through The Via Appia in Rome comes up about 166 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Adriana.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Adriana write-up.
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Villa Adriana closes the day.
Villa Adriana → The Via Appia in Rome is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia in Rome → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through The Via Appia in Rome is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia in Rome → Villa Adriana is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.