CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A one-way ride of 696 km, Fiumicino-Isola Sacra to Riano - roughly 12 h 10 in the saddle. The stops in between: La Massimina-Casal Lumbroso, Scenic stretch near Rignano Flaminio, near Forano and Anagni. The climbs: Fiumicino-Isola Sacra and in San Cesareo.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 57 km this is Mille Miglia Historic Route Core, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Isola Sacra is a flat, triangular island at the mouth of the Tiber, cut off from the mainland by the river's natural channel, the Fiumara Grande, and by an ancient canal dug under the emperor Trajan. Most people know the area only because Rome's main airport, Leonardo da Vinci, sits just to the north, but the island and its surroundings hold a remarkable amount of history if you are willing to pause for it.
Read the complete Fiumicino-Isola Sacra write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Castelli Romani Dawn Loop is where the day begins. Next is Castelli Romani Dawn Loop high point.
Isola Sacra is a flat, triangular island at the mouth of the Tiber, cut off from the mainland by the river's natural channel, the Fiumara Grande, and by an ancient canal dug under the emperor Trajan. Most people know the area only because Rome's main airport, Leonardo da Vinci, sits just to the north, but the island and its surroundings hold a remarkable amount of history if you are willing to pause for it.
Read the complete Fiumicino-Isola Sacra write-up.
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You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Castelli Romani Dawn Loop checkpoint 8.
The Tiber does its last bit of meandering here, between the airport at Fiumicino, the exhibition halls of the Fiera di Roma and a scatter of new suburbs at Ponte Galeria and Parco Leonardo. On a map it looks like nothing much, a tangle of motorway junctions on the western fringe of Rome, and on the ground it is mostly that. But it is a very old landscape under the concrete, and if you have ridden down from the Val d'Orcia, it is worth knowing what you are arriving into.
Read the complete Near La Massimina-Casal Lumbroso write-up.
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The route ends here after 659 km. Next is Scenic stretch near Rignano Flaminio.
North of Rome, the ancient Via Flaminia runs up through the Ager Faliscus, a landscape of volcanic tufa plateaux cut by deep, wooded ravines, and Rignano Flaminio sits right on its line. The road was built in the third century BC to link Rome with the Adriatic, and you are following, more or less, the route of legions, merchants and pilgrims who travelled it for two thousand years.
Read the complete Scenic stretch near Rignano Flaminio write-up.
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Scenic stretch near Rignano Flaminio, early in the day. Next is Photo stop near Forano.
Silver-green olive groves cover the hills of the Sabina, the ancient land of the Sabines north-east of Rome, and the oil they produce is among the oldest protected olive oils in Italy. Forano is one of the small hill towns of the area, perched above the Tiber valley with stone houses and narrow streets, and from its edges the view stretches across the river to the volcanic hills and mountains beyond.
Read the complete Photo stop near Forano write-up.
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Photo stop near Forano sits at 176 km, early in the day. Next is Rome / Central Italy return.
South of Rome the Sacco valley runs south-east between two lines of hills, and Anagni stands on a ridge above it, a town of grey stone that the Middle Ages treated as a second Rome. Four popes came from here, and for long periods the papal court lived behind its walls. This stop lies down below, between Anagni, Paliano and Gavignano, in the farmland of the Ciociaria.
Read the complete Near Anagni, on the way back write-up.
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Rome / Central Italy return comes up 220 km in. Next is Food stop near Cisterna di Latina.
South of the Alban Hills, the land flattens into the Agro Pontino, the plain that was once the Pontine Marshes, a malarial wilderness that defeated the Romans, the popes and Napoleon. It was finally drained in the 1930s under Mussolini, in a vast project that created new towns, farms and canals. Cisterna di Latina sits on the edge of the plain, at the foot of the Monti Lepini.
Read the complete Food stop near Cisterna di Latina write-up.
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A break here. Next is Back to Castelli.
This low, flat island between two arms of the river is rich in history. It was the site of Portus, the harbour that the emperors Claudius and Trajan built to supply Rome, and the ruins of warehouses, docks and a hexagonal basin can still be seen. Ostia Antica, the old port town, is only a short ride away.
Read the complete Castelli write-up.
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Finish at Back to Castelli. That is the ride. Next is Tivoli and Sabine Hills.
Next is Scenic stretch near Guidonia Montecelio.
Scenic stretch near Guidonia Montecelio comes up 395 km in. Next is High point in San Cesareo.
High point in San Cesareo is the summit of this stretch. Next is Photo stop near Ardea.
Photo stop near Ardea, late in the day. Next is Tivoli and Sabine Hills checkpoint 8.
You are in the southern suburbs of Rome, beyond the modernist boulevards of EUR and inside the sprawl around Via Laurentina, close to the little settlement of Selcetta and not far from Trigoria, where AS Roma has its training ground. It is not a destination in itself, but it is a sensible base for rides into the Castelli Romani and further east to the Sabine hills and Abruzzo, because it puts you on the right side of the city and close to the Grande Raccordo Anulare, Rome's orbital motorway.
Read the complete Near Selcetta write-up.
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Tivoli and Sabine Hills checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Tivoli and Sabine Hills food stop.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fiumicino-Isola Sacra write-up.
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Tivoli and Sabine Hills food stop is where this day stops to eat.
Just north of Lake Bracciano, in the volcanic hills of the Tolfa and Sabatini, lie Manziana and Canale Monterano, two quiet towns in a landscape of chestnut woods, sulphur springs and deep tufa gorges. It is only an hour from Rome, but it feels much further, with cows grazing in clearings and the smell of wet leaves after rain.
Read the complete Manziana, on the way back write-up.
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615 km in you reach Rome / Central Italy return. Next is Back to Tivoli and.
Here you are north of Rome, close to Riano, in the broad Tiber valley, on the volcanic plain between the river and the Sabine foothills. It is the other end of the day for a ride that left Rome by the Via Flaminia or Via Salaria, and the character of the land is gentle: fields of wheat and sunflowers, old farm towers, olive groves on the first low hills and always, to the north, the shape of Monte Soratte.
Read the complete Tivoli and write-up.
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Back to Tivoli and closes the day.
Fuel stop in Fiumicino-Isola Sacra → Fiumicino-Isola Sacra is 2 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Scenic stretch near Rignano Flaminio → Photo stop near Forano is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Photo stop near Forano → Near Anagni, on the way back is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop near Cisterna di Latina → Back to Castelli is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Back to Castelli → Fuel stop near Riano is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuel stop near Riano → Scenic stretch near Guidonia Montecelio is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Scenic stretch near Guidonia Montecelio → High point in San Cesareo is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
High point in San Cesareo → Photo stop near Ardea is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Photo stop near Ardea → Near Selcetta is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.