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 121 km round trip from Peschiera del Garda - roughly 2 h 44 in the saddle. It goes by way of Lucone, The monumental area with the monastic comp and back through Lucone. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 28 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 Lucone.
Lucone is a small basin in the green hills of the Valtènesi, just west of Lake Garda, and it is one of the sites in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Once there was a little lake here, and during the Bronze Age people built villages of wooden houses raised on piles along its shore. The lake later turned to marsh and peat, which preserved the timbers, pottery and organic remains in waterlogged conditions for thousands of years. What you see today is a gentle, wooded hollow among vineyards and fields, and you need some imagination; the finds are in the archaeological museum in nearby Gavardo.
Read the complete Lucone write-up.
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Lucone comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach The monumental area with the monastic comp. Next is back through Lucone.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lucone write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Lucone, 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 → Lucone is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lucone → The monumental area with the monastic comp is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The monumental area with the monastic comp → back through Lucone is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lucone → Belvedere is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.