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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Bodio it runs 456 km to Bodio; allow about 6 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes Rempart du bourg, Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L and back through Rempart du bourg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,500 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Italy into Switzerland - 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 75 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Gavirate, on the northern shore of the Lago di Varese in Lombardy, has a sweet claim to fame: it is the home of the brutti ma buoni, ugly but good, crunchy biscuits made with hazelnuts and egg whites, which were reportedly invented here in the nineteenth century and are still sold in local pastry shops. The lake itself is a small, shallow lake surrounded by low hills, and its shores were home to some of the earliest pile-dwelling villages in Italy. The site of Bodio Centrale, also known as delle Monete, on the southern shore near Bodio Lomnago, is part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, listed by UNESCO in 2011.
Read the complete Bodio centrale o delle Monete write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Bodio centrale o delle Monete is where the day begins. Next is Rempart du bourg.
Most people who stop in Bellinzona look up at the castles. Spend a little time at street level instead and you will find the other half of the story: the walls of the old borgo, the medieval town that grew up beneath Castel Grande. Stretches of these ramparts still enclose the old centre, linking the castles to each other and to the great Murata, the wall that once ran right across the floor of the Ticino valley to the river, so that nothing could pass north or south without the Duke of Milan's permission.
Read the complete Rempart du bourg write-up.
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Rempart du bourg comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. 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.
about 228 km into the recorded legs you reach Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L. Next is back through Rempart du bourg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rempart du bourg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Rempart du bourg, late in the day. Next is Bodio centrale o delle Monete.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bodio centrale o delle Monete write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bodio centrale o delle Monete. That is the ride.
Bodio centrale o delle Monete → Rempart du bourg is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rempart du bourg → Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L is 153 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L → back through Rempart du bourg is 153 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Rempart du bourg → Bodio centrale o delle Monete is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.