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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218 km from Milan to Milan, about 3 h 46 of riding. The stops in between: Crespi d'Adda, Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th, Fortified city of Bergamo and back through Crespi d'Adda. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Most people who come to Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan are here for one painting, and they are right to be. On the wall of the old refectory of the Dominican convent, Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last Supper in the 1490s for Duke Ludovico Sforza, and despite his experimental technique, which began to fail almost at once, despite centuries of damage and despite a bomb that destroyed much of the building in 1943, the painting survives. The wall was protected with sandbags, and the long restoration completed in 1999 revealed colours and faces that had been hidden for centuries.
Read the complete Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari write-up.
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Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari is where the day begins. Next is Crespi d'Adda.
Crespi d'Adda is a whole company town, built from 1878 by the Crespi family of cotton manufacturers on a bend of the Adda river where the water could turn their turbines. Around the mill they laid out rows of neat houses with gardens for the workers, larger villas for the managers, a school, a church that copies the Renaissance church of Santa Maria di Piazza in Busto Arsizio, a washhouse, a hospital, and, on a slight rise at the end of the main street, a cemetery with a strange, almost Mayan-looking mausoleum for the family. It was a paternalistic utopia in which the company looked after its workers from cradle to grave, and UNESCO listed it in 1995 as one of the best-preserved examples of its kind in Europe.
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Crespi d'Adda comes up about 44 km into the recorded legs. Next is Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th.
Bergamo is two cities: the busy modern town on the plain, and the Città Alta on the hill above, enclosed by massive walls built by the Republic of Venice between 1561 and 1588. Bergamo was then the westernmost outpost of Venice's mainland territory, facing the Spanish-ruled Duchy of Milan, and the walls, more than five kilometres long, were designed to withstand artillery, with bastions, platforms and gates. They were never seriously tested in battle, which is why they are so well preserved. In 2017 UNESCO listed them, together with other Venetian fortifications in Italy, Croatia and Montenegro, as the Venetian Works of Defence.
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about 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th.
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Read the complete Crespi d'Adda write-up.
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Crespi d'Adda, about halfway. Next is Fortified city of Bergamo.
Bergamo has two cities stacked on one hill. The Città Alta, the upper town, sits inside a ring of sixteenth-century walls built by the Republic of Venice, which ruled here for more than three centuries and wanted a stronghold against Milan. The walls run for about six kilometres and are pierced by gates, and UNESCO recognised them in 2017 as part of the Venetian Works of Defence between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Below lies the Città Bassa, the modern town of broad avenues and shopping streets, and a funicular links the two, a short, steep ride worth taking for its own sake.
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Fortified city of Bergamo sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Crespi d'Adda.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Crespi d'Adda write-up.
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back through Crespi d'Adda comes up about 130 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th write-up.
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about 152 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Crespi d'Adda write-up.
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back through Crespi d'Adda, late in the day. Next is Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari write-up.
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The route ends here after 218 km.
Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari → Crespi d'Adda is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crespi d'Adda → Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th → Crespi d'Adda is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crespi d'Adda → Fortified city of Bergamo is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortified city of Bergamo → back through Crespi d'Adda is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Crespi d'Adda → back through Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th → back through Crespi d'Adda is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Crespi d'Adda → Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.