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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A 425 km round trip from Versoix - roughly 7 h 12 in the saddle. On the way it passes Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz, The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier and back through Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Switzerland into France - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Lake Geneva has a gentle northern shore and a steep one, and Bellerive lies on the quiet side. Collonge-Bellerive is a village on the Geneva side of the lake, a few kilometres from the city, with lawns running down to the water, old villas and a small harbour where sailing boats bob. Some five thousand years ago, people built houses on piles in the shallows here, and what remains of that settlement lies below the surface, protected as part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, listed by UNESCO in 2011. There is nothing to see from the shore except the lake and the Alps, so the visit is about the setting.
Read the complete Bellerive I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Bellerive I is where the day begins. Next is Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz.
Lake Annecy is often called the cleanest lake in Europe, and on a summer day its water is such a startling shade of turquoise that it looks retouched. The lake fills a long valley among the limestone mountains of Haute-Savoie, with the town of Annecy at its northern end, and its western shore, around Saint-Jorioz, is a flat area of reeds and meadows, the Marais de Saint-Jorioz, where prehistoric people built villages on piles. The remains are part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, listed by UNESCO in 2011, and lie hidden under the water and the marshes.
Read the complete Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier.
On the shore of Lake Geneva at Corseaux, just west of Vevey, stands a low white house, long and narrow, with a single strip window running along its lakeside facade. It looks modest, almost plain, but it is one of the key buildings of modern architecture. Le Corbusier, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss Jura, designed it in the early 1920s for his parents, and the Villa Le Lac, also called the Petite Maison, was an early demonstration of his ideas: a ribbon window framing the view, a roof garden, an open plan. Since 2016 it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, which includes seventeen sites in seven countries.
Read the complete The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 212 km into the recorded legs you reach The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier. Next is back through Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz, late in the day. Next is Bellerive I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bellerive I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bellerive I. That is the ride.
Bellerive I → Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz → The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier is 148 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier → back through Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz is 150 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz → Bellerive I is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.