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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498 km from Molveno to Molveno, about 9 h 23 of riding. The stops in between: Parco Comunale di Sellero, Lucone and back through Parco Comunale di Sellero. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Brenta Dolomites stand apart from the rest of the Dolomites, a separate range west of the Adige valley, and they look as if they were carved by someone with a taste for drama: sheer walls, needle-sharp spires and long ledges of pale limestone glowing pink at dawn and dusk. The range is part of the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage site, listed in 2009, and it is protected within the Adamello Brenta Nature Park, home to brown bears, which were reintroduced here from Slovenia around the turn of the millennium.
Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
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Dolomiti di Brenta is where the day begins. 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.
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Parco Comunale di Sellero comes up about 139 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 250 km into the recorded legs you reach Lucone. Next is back through Parco Comunale di Sellero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Comunale di Sellero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Parco Comunale di Sellero, late in the day. Next is Dolomiti di Brenta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Dolomiti di Brenta. That is the ride.
Dolomiti di Brenta → Parco Comunale di Sellero is 139 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Comunale di Sellero → Lucone is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Lucone → back through Parco Comunale di Sellero is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Parco Comunale di Sellero → Dolomiti di Brenta is 139 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.