Why this ride
179 km from Verona to Verona, about 3 h 36 of riding. On the way it passes Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda, Lucone, The monumental area with the monastic comp and back through Lucone. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
City of Verona and The monumental area with the monastic comp
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 179 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 36
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Scenic road chapters
Mille Miglia Historic Route Core
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 29 km this is Mille Miglia Historic Route Core, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 29 km
- Named road
- Mille Miglia Historic Route Core
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. City of Verona
Verona is where the north of Italy starts to feel like the south, and where history piles up in layers so thick that you trip over them. The Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, still dominates Piazza Bra and still hosts opera in summer, with tens of thousands of people sitting on stone steps two thousand years old. The Adige river swings through town in a double bend, crossed by bridges including the Ponte Pietra, part Roman and rebuilt after the Germans blew it up in 1945. And of course there is Juliet's balcony, which was added to a medieval house in the twentieth century to satisfy visitors searching for the Shakespeare story; people queue to rub the breast of her bronze statue for luck.
Read the complete City of Verona write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
City of Verona is where the day begins. Next is Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda.
2. Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda
Water surrounds Peschiera on every side, and that was the whole idea. The town sits where the River Mincio flows out of the southern end of Lake Garda, and in the sixteenth century the Republic of Venice turned it into a star-shaped fortress with massive pentagonal walls, bastions and moats fed by the lake and the river. Later the Austrians made it one of the four corners of the Quadrilatero, the defensive square of fortresses that guarded their hold on northern Italy in the nineteenth century. In 2017 Peschiera became part of the UNESCO listing of Venetian works of defence between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, alongside Bergamo, Palmanova and fortresses on the Adriatic.
Read the complete Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lucone.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Lucone. Next is The monumental area with the monastic comp.
4. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The monumental area with the monastic comp, about halfway. Next is back through Lucone.
5. back through Lucone
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lucone write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Lucone sits at 115 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda.
6. back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda comes up about 149 km into the recorded legs. Next is City of Verona.
7. City of Verona
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete City of Verona write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
City of Verona closes the day.
Leg by leg
City of Verona to Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda
City of Verona → Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda to Lucone
Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda → Lucone is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lucone to The monumental area with the monastic comp
Lucone → The monumental area with the monastic comp is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The monumental area with the monastic comp to back through Lucone
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 to back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda
back through Lucone → back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda to City of Verona
back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda → City of Verona is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.