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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358 km from Tubre to Tubre, about 6 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L, Parco Comunale di Sellero and back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,500 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Switzerland into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. 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 72 km this is Ofen Pass and Val Mustair, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
In the high, narrow Val Mustair, at the point where Switzerland meets South Tyrol and the Stelvio national park, there is a Benedictine convent that was founded, according to tradition, by Charlemagne himself around the year 800. Whether or not the emperor's role is exactly as the legend has it, the convent of St John is certainly Carolingian, and it keeps the largest cycle of Carolingian wall paintings anywhere. The figures, painted in the early ninth century, cover the walls of the church in red, yellow and green, in a lively, slightly naive style, with scenes from the life of David and the story of Christ, and later Romanesque frescoes were painted over them in places. UNESCO listed it in 1983.
Read the complete Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair is where the day begins. Next is Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L.
The Rhaetian Railway's Albula and Bernina lines were built in the early twentieth century to connect the Engadine with the rest of Switzerland and with Italy, and they are masterpieces of mountain railway engineering, with spiral tunnels, viaducts and gradients that seem impossible for a train. They were listed by UNESCO in 2008 together with the landscapes they cross, and St. If you ride in this area, you will see the red trains everywhere, and you will often be riding beside them.
Read the complete Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parco Comunale di Sellero.
Valcamonica is the valley of the rock carvings, and Sellero is one of the places where you can walk among them. For about eight thousand years, from the Stone Age to Roman times, the people who lived here, especially the Camuni of the Iron Age, hammered and scratched pictures onto the smooth glacier-polished rock: hunters, deer, warriors, farmers, ploughs, huts and strange symbols. The valley holds hundreds of thousands of them, and in 1979 it became Italy's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. The municipal park at Sellero preserves a group of engraved rocks in woodland above the Oglio river, so you walk on a path and find the carvings on bare sheets of stone among the trees.
Read the complete Parco Comunale di Sellero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 179 km into the recorded legs you reach Parco Comunale di Sellero. Next is back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L, late in the day. Next is Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair. That is the ride.
Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair → Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L → Parco Comunale di Sellero is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Parco Comunale di Sellero → back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L → Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.