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 Trento it runs 453 km to Trento; allow about 8 h 54 of riding. The stops in between: Dolomiti di Brenta, Fiavé-Lago Carera, Molina di Ledro and Rio delle Foglie. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 19 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Trento lies in the Adige valley with the Dolomites standing over it, a mid-sized Alpine city of about eighty thousand where Italian and Austrian history meet. Until 1918 it belonged to the Habsburgs, and before that it was a prince-bishopric, and you can still feel the north-south seam in its architecture, its apple orchards and its habit of doing things properly. Rock walls rise on both sides, and in winter the valley floor can sit in shade by mid-afternoon.
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Trento is where the day begins. Next is Dolomiti di Brenta.
The Brenta Dolomites stand apart from the rest of the Dolomites, a separate range west of the Adige valley, and they look as if they were carved by someone with a taste for drama: sheer walls, needle-sharp spires and long ledges of pale limestone glowing pink at dawn and dusk. The range is part of the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage site, listed in 2009, and it is protected within the Adamello Brenta Nature Park, home to brown bears, which were reintroduced here from Slovenia around the turn of the millennium.
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Dolomiti di Brenta comes up about 48 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fiavé-Lago Carera.
Lago Carera is barely a lake any more: a damp, reedy hollow and peat bog below the village of Fiavè, in the Giudicarie valleys of western Trentino. Yet in the Bronze Age this was a lakeshore crowded with houses on wooden piles, and the waterlogged peat preserved their timbers, tools and food remains for three and a half thousand years. Fiavè is one of the pile-dwelling sites of the transnational World Heritage Site covering prehistoric settlements around the Alps, and a museum in the village shows what came out of the bog.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Fiavé-Lago Carera. Next is Molina di Ledro.
In 1929, when the level of Lake Ledro was lowered to feed a hydroelectric plant, thousands of wooden posts emerged from the mud near Molina di Ledro. They were the remains of a Bronze Age pile-dwelling village, inhabited some four thousand years ago, and the finds included pottery, tools, weapons, and a canoe. Molina di Ledro is part of the UNESCO-listed Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and the Museo delle Palafitte, on the lake shore, displays the finds alongside reconstructed huts on stilts.
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Molina di Ledro, about halfway. Next is Rio delle Foglie.
Rio delle Foglie is the Italian name for the Bletterbach, a gorge that cuts deep into the plateau above the Adige valley, south of Bolzano, near the villages of Aldino and Redagno. It is part of the Dolomites World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2009, and it is one of the best places in the Alps to read the history of the Earth in rock. The stream has carved down through hundreds of metres of layers, from volcanic porphyry at the bottom through red sandstones to the white dolomite of the Corno Bianco at the top, spanning tens of millions of years.
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Rio delle Foglie sits at 173 km, about halfway. Next is back through Molina di Ledro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Molina di Ledro comes up about 345 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fiavé-Lago Carera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fiavé-Lago Carera write-up.
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about 370 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fiavé-Lago Carera. Next is back through Dolomiti di Brenta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
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back through Dolomiti di Brenta, late in the day. Next is Trento.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Trento write-up.
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The route ends here after 453 km.
Trento → Dolomiti di Brenta is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolomiti di Brenta → Fiavé-Lago Carera is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fiavé-Lago Carera → Molina di Ledro is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molina di Ledro → Rio delle Foglie is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rio delle Foglie → back through Molina di Ledro is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Molina di Ledro → back through Fiavé-Lago Carera is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fiavé-Lago Carera → back through Dolomiti di Brenta is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dolomiti di Brenta → Trento is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.