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 374 km round trip from Peschiera del Garda - roughly 6 h 18 in the saddle. The stops in between: Molina di Ledro, Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te and back through Molina di Ledro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 92 km this is Lake Garda Western Shore and Strada della Forra, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
South of Lake Garda the mountains step back and the land turns into a theatre of hills. Those are the moraines, left by the glacier that once filled the valley and dropped its load of gravel in a series of curved ridges as it melted. The belvedere on this stretch is part of that gentle amphitheatre, a viewpoint over vineyards and fields on the way between Peschiera del Garda and the old battlefields at San Martino and Solferino, and in clear weather you can see the Alps rising behind the lake.
Read the complete Belvedere write-up.
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Belvedere is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
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Molina di Ledro comes up about 92 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te.
Valcamonica, the long valley of the Oglio river north of Lake Iseo, holds one of the largest collections of prehistoric rock carvings in the world, with hundreds of thousands of figures pecked into smooth glacier-polished rocks over thousands of years. It was the first site in Italy to be listed by UNESCO, in 1979. The Luine park, on a wooded hill above Darfo Boario Terme at the southern end of the valley, is one of the places where you can see these engravings up close, with paths leading between rock surfaces covered in figures of animals, people, weapons and mysterious symbols.
Read the complete Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te write-up.
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about 186 km into the recorded legs you reach Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te. Next is back through Molina di Ledro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Molina di Ledro, late in the day. Next is Belvedere.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Belvedere write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Belvedere. That is the ride.
Belvedere → Molina di Ledro is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molina di Ledro → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → back through Molina di Ledro is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Molina di Ledro → Belvedere is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.