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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260 km from Cavriana to Cavriana, about 4 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of San Sivino, The monumental area with the monastic comp, Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te and back through The monumental area with the monastic comp. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. 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 41 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 land rises into a series of low hills, the moraines left behind by the glacier that carved the lake. Among them, in a hollow, lies a small heart-shaped lake, and on a ridge above it stands the walled village of Castellaro Lagusello, one of the most charming in Lombardy. The lake and its marshes are a nature reserve, and on its shore, at Fondo Tacoli, archaeologists found the remains of a Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement, part of the UNESCO group of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
Read the complete Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli write-up.
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Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli is where the day begins. Next is San Sivino.
On the western shore of Lake Garda, between Manerba and Moniga, the little bay of San Sivino hides something very old under its shallows. People lived here in the Bronze Age in villages built on wooden piles at the water's edge, and the remains of their posts, tools and pottery survive in the mud of the lake. The site is one of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that UNESCO listed in 2011, a series of more than a hundred sites spread across six countries. There is nothing to see above the water, but knowing that the shore was settled thousands of years ago adds a quiet depth to an afternoon by the lake.
Read the complete San Sivino write-up.
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San Sivino comes up about 31 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 72 km into the recorded legs you reach The monumental area with the monastic comp. 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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Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, about halfway. Next is back through The monumental area with the monastic comp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The monumental area with the monastic comp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The monumental area with the monastic comp sits at 151 km, about halfway. Next is back through San Sivino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Sivino write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through San Sivino comes up about 230 km into the recorded legs. Next is Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli closes the day.
Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli → San Sivino is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Sivino → The monumental area with the monastic comp is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The monumental area with the monastic comp → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → back through The monumental area with the monastic comp is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The monumental area with the monastic comp → back through San Sivino is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through San Sivino → Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.