CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Casal Palocco it runs 854 km to Cave; allow about 14 h 58 of riding. The stops in between: La Massimina-Casal Lumbroso, Scenic stretch near Anguillara Sabazia and near Campagnano di Roma. The climb of the day is in Lido di Ostia. Long stretches are under trees.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 59 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Terminillo Mountain Road is where the day begins. Next is High point in Lido di Ostia.
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Terminillo Mountain Road checkpoint 8.
La Massimina and Casal Lumbroso are not names you will find in a guidebook. They are western outskirts of Rome, just outside the great ring road, the Grande Raccordo Anulare, where the city spills into a landscape of housing estates, garden centres, warehouses and stubborn pockets of farmland. Around eleven thousand people live here, and it is a practical place to finish: close to the motorway, close to the city, with everything you need.
Read the complete La Massimina-Casal Lumbroso write-up.
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The route ends here after 822 km. Next is Scenic stretch near Anguillara Sabazia.
Scenic stretch near Anguillara Sabazia, early in the day. Next is Photo stop near Campagnano di Roma.
Photo stop near Campagnano di Roma sits at 219 km, early in the day. Next is Rome / Central Italy return.
East of Rome, past Tivoli, the land rises into the Monti Ruffi, a small range of limestone hills cloaked in chestnut and oak, with old villages perched on every ridge. Gerano, Rocca Santo Stefano and Pisoniano are among them, small places of a few hundred to a thousand people, built of grey stone around churches and the remains of medieval castles, looking out over the Aniene valley towards the higher Simbruini mountains.
Read the complete Near Gerano, on the way back write-up.
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Rome / Central Italy return comes up 274 km in. Next is Food stop in Cave.
A break here. Next is Back to Terminillo.
The suburbs here were built in the twentieth century, with gardens and villas in the shade of tall umbrella pines, and the atmosphere is leafy and a little dated, like a resort for families who had cars before most people did. This is the end of a ride from Terminillo, and it is an easy ride in, mostly straight and quick.
Read the complete Terminillo write-up.
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Finish at Back to Terminillo. That is the ride. Next is Lake Bracciano Easy Scenic.
Rome / Central Italy return comes up 493 km in. Next is Food stop near Amelia.
A break here. Next is Lake Bracciano Easy Scenic photo pull-off.
Lake Bracciano Easy Scenic photo pull-off, late in the day. Next is Lake Bracciano Easy Scenic checkpoint 8.
Lake Bracciano Easy Scenic checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Lake Bracciano Easy Scenic scenic road.
Long before Rome mattered, Ardea was the capital of the Rutuli, the people of Turnus, Aeneas's rival in Virgil's Aeneid. The old town still sits on its tufa outcrop a few kilometres inland. The coast below, Marina di Ardea and Tor San Lorenzo, is something else entirely: a sprawling strip of holiday homes, campsites and beach clubs along a long, straight shore of dark volcanic sand, between Ostia and Anzio.
Read the complete Marina di Ardea-Tor San Lorenzo write-up.
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Lake Bracciano Easy Scenic scenic road comes up 712 km in. Next is Lake Bracciano Easy Scenic high point.
767 km in you reach Lake Bracciano Easy Scenic high point. Next is Back to Lake Bracciano.
Cave is a hill town in the countryside south-east of Rome, at the foot of the Prenestini mountains, and the ride that ends here has come a long way round from Lake Bracciano to the north-west of the capital. The town has about 8,000 people, and it is a working place of old stone houses, cafés, bakeries and shops, with a church and a small square at its centre. Fuel and supplies are easy to find, and the local bars serve strong coffee early in the morning.
Read the complete Lake Bracciano write-up.
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Back to Lake Bracciano closes the day.
Fuel stop near Casal Palocco → High point in Lido di Ostia is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
High point in Lido di Ostia → La Massimina-Casal Lumbroso is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Scenic stretch near Anguillara Sabazia → Photo stop near Campagnano di Roma is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Photo stop near Campagnano di Roma → Near Gerano, on the way back is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop in Cave → Back to Terminillo is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Back to Terminillo → Fuel stop near Cave is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuel stop near Cave → Near Polino, on the way back is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop near Amelia → Ladispoli is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.