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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287 km from Santa Maria degli Angeli to Santa Maria degli Angeli, about 4 h 43 of riding. On the way it passes The Clitunno Tempietto, Teatro Feronia, Teatro Lauro Rossi and back through Teatro Feronia. The line favours views over speed.
Assisi sits on the western flank of Monte Subasio, and the first thing you notice is the colour. The stone, quarried from the mountain itself, is a pale pink-white that glows at sunset, and the whole town seems to hang off the slope above the Umbrian plain. It was the home of Saint Francis, born here around 1181, who gave up his father's cloth business to live in poverty, and the town built one of the great pilgrimage churches of Christendom around his tomb. The Basilica of San Francesco has two layers of frescoes by Giotto and his circle, and was badly shaken by the earthquake of 1997, when part of the vault fell. It reopened after careful restoration, and UNESCO listed Assisi in 2000.
Read the complete Ville d'Assise write-up.
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Ville d'Assise is where the day begins. Next is The Clitunno Tempietto.
A few steps from the Via Flaminia, in the green flatland below Spoleto, there is a little building that scholars have argued about for centuries. The Tempietto del Clitunno looks like a miniature Roman temple, with a gabled front, columns and a carved cornice, but it is actually an early medieval church, made largely of reused Roman pieces and probably dating from somewhere between late antiquity and the time of the Lombards. It is among the group of Lombard sites in Italy that UNESCO listed in 2011, and part of its charm is that nobody is quite sure who built it or when.
Read the complete The Clitunno Tempietto write-up.
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The Clitunno Tempietto comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teatro Feronia.
San Severino Marche has one of the most unusual town squares in Italy. The Piazza del Popolo is an elongated ellipse, lined with arcades and palaces, and it was originally a market space outside the walls of the medieval town on the hill above. Today it is the heart of a town of eight thousand people in the valley of the Potenza river, in the inland Marche, and the Teatro Feronia stands on it, an elegant nineteenth-century theatre named after an ancient Italic goddess of fertility and freedom.
Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
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about 116 km into the recorded legs you reach Teatro Feronia. Next is Teatro Lauro Rossi.
Macerata is a hill town that takes its culture seriously, and the Teatro Lauro Rossi is the polished little jewel in the middle of it. Built in the second half of the eighteenth century in the heart of the old centre, it is a classic Italian horseshoe theatre with tiers of boxes in cream and gold, and it carries the name of Lauro Rossi, a nineteenth-century composer born in the town. If the doors are open, step in for a look; the room is intimate enough that you can imagine the whole town crammed in for a premiere, gossiping between acts.
Read the complete Teatro Lauro Rossi write-up.
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Teatro Lauro Rossi, about halfway. Next is back through Teatro Feronia.
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Read the complete Teatro Feronia write-up.
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back through Teatro Feronia sits at 192 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Clitunno Tempietto.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Clitunno Tempietto write-up.
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back through The Clitunno Tempietto comes up about 253 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ville d'Assise.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ville d'Assise write-up.
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Ville d'Assise closes the day.
Ville d'Assise → The Clitunno Tempietto is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Clitunno Tempietto → Teatro Feronia is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teatro Feronia → Teatro Lauro Rossi is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teatro Lauro Rossi → back through Teatro Feronia is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teatro Feronia → back through The Clitunno Tempietto is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Clitunno Tempietto → Ville d'Assise is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.