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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Out of Canino, one way: 566 km, roughly 7 h 20 in the saddle. It goes by way of Castelvecchio Calvisio, in Vallecupa and La Massimina-Casal Lumbroso. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Canino is a hill town in the far north-west of Lazio, in the Tuscia, the old land of the Etruscans, close to the border with Tuscany. The landscape around it is gently rolling, covered with olive groves, wheat fields and pastures, and the olive oil of Canino has a protected designation and a reputation as one of the finest in central Italy.
Read the complete Photo stop near Canino write-up.
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Photo stop near Canino is where the day begins. Next is Rome / Central Italy return.
Castelvecchio Calvisio is a village built as a fortress. Its stone houses are arranged in a tight ellipse on a hilltop, their outer walls forming a continuous defensive ring, with narrow lanes and covered passages inside and only a few gates leading out. From above it looks like a stone egg. It sits on the southern slopes of the Gran Sasso, in a landscape of bare hills, almond trees and high pastures.
Read the complete Castelvecchio Calvisio, on the way back write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Rome / Central Italy return comes up about 321 km into the recorded legs. Next is Food stop in Vallecupa.
A break here. Next is Tuscany Val d’Orcia Overnight 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tuscany Val d’Orcia Overnight checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Back to Tuscany Val.
Anzio and Nettuno are twin towns on the Lazio coast, about fifty kilometres south of Rome, sharing a beach, a harbour and a great deal of history. The Roman emperor Nero was born in Antium, as Anzio was known, and the ruins of the imperial villa survive on the cliff above the sea, with a grotto and a sweep of brickwork. In the twentieth century the place was in the news in a different way. In January 1944, Allied forces landed here in Operation Shingle, hoping to outflank the German lines at Cassino and race to Rome, and instead found themselves pinned to the beachhead for months in hard fighting.
Read the complete Tuscany Val write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Finish at Back to Tuscany Val. That is the ride.
Photo stop near Canino → Castelvecchio Calvisio, on the way back is 321 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop in Vallecupa → Near La Massimina-Casal Lumbroso is 164 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.