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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From Tivoli it runs 290 km to Tivoli; allow about 5 h 47 of riding. The stops in between: Appia. Regina Viarum, The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae and back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este, son of Lucrezia Borgia, had expected to become pope. When that did not happen, he was made governor of Tivoli and consoled himself by turning an old Benedictine convent on the hillside into a villa with a garden that would astonish Europe. Built in the sixteenth century, the Villa d'Este is a hillside of terraces, stairs and fountains, all fed by gravity from the river Aniene: the Hundred Fountains, a long wall of spouting masks and eagles, the Fountain of the Organ, which plays music driven by water, and the Oval Fountain, with its cascade falling into a pool. The villa and its gardens are a World Heritage Site.
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Villa d'Este is where the day begins. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 75 km on.
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 comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae. Next is back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 75 km on.
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back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, late in the day. Next is Villa d'Este.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa d'Este write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa d'Este. That is the ride.
Villa d'Este → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae → 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 → Villa d'Este is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.