Why this ride
A 141 km round trip from Solferino - roughly 2 h 52 in the saddle. It goes by way of San Sivino, The monumental area with the monastic comp and back through San Sivino. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Bande - Corte Carpani and The monumental area with the monastic comp
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 141 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 52
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Scenic road chapters
Lake Garda Western Shore and Strada della Forra
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 41 km this is Lake Garda Western Shore and Strada della Forra, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 41 km
- Named road
- Lake Garda Western Shore and Strada della Forra
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Bande - Corte Carpani
Corte Carpani is the kind of place that the name tells you most about. A corte in this part of Lombardy is a farm courtyard, with a farmhouse, barns and outbuildings arranged around a square, and the old estates in the Mantuan hills often kept the names of the families who owned them for a few generations. It sits among the low moraine hills south of Lake Garda, near the villages of Solferino and Cavriana, in a country of vines, maize, cypress rows and brick farm towers.
Read the complete Bande - Corte Carpani write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Bande - Corte Carpani is where the day begins. Next is San Sivino.
2. San Sivino
On the western shore of Lake Garda, between Manerba and Moniga, the little bay of San Sivino hides something very old under its shallows. People lived here in the Bronze Age in villages built on wooden piles at the water's edge, and the remains of their posts, tools and pottery survive in the mud of the lake. The site is one of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that UNESCO listed in 2011, a series of more than a hundred sites spread across six countries. There is nothing to see above the water, but knowing that the shore was settled thousands of years ago adds a quiet depth to an afternoon by the lake.
Read the complete San Sivino write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
San Sivino comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is The monumental area with the monastic comp.
3. The monumental area with the monastic comp
The centre of Brescia holds two thousand years of layered history within a few hundred metres. Along the old Roman main street, the Capitolium temple raised under Vespasian still lifts its columns above the forum, with a Roman theatre beside it, and a short walk away the monastery of San Salvatore and Santa Giulia spreads its cloisters and churches over the site of Roman houses. The monastery was founded in the eighth century by Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards, and his wife Ansa; their daughter Ermengarda, rejected by Charlemagne, is said to have ended her days here.
Read the complete The monumental area with the monastic comp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach The monumental area with the monastic comp. Next is back through San Sivino.
4. back through San Sivino
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Sivino write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through San Sivino, late in the day. Next is Bande - Corte Carpani.
5. Bande - Corte Carpani
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bande - Corte Carpani write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Bande - Corte Carpani. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Bande - Corte Carpani to San Sivino
Bande - Corte Carpani → San Sivino is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Sivino to The monumental area with the monastic comp
San Sivino → The monumental area with the monastic comp is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The monumental area with the monastic comp to back through San Sivino
The monumental area with the monastic comp → back through San Sivino is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through San Sivino to Bande - Corte Carpani
back through San Sivino → Bande - Corte Carpani is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.