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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780 km from Molveno to Molveno, about 14 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes Molina di Ledro, Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d, Fiavé-Lago Carera and Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 50 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
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 Molina di Ledro.
In 1929, when the level of Lake Ledro was lowered to feed a hydroelectric plant, thousands of wooden posts emerged from the mud near Molina di Ledro. They were the remains of a Bronze Age pile-dwelling village, inhabited some four thousand years ago, and the finds included pottery, tools, weapons, and a canoe. Molina di Ledro is part of the UNESCO-listed Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and the Museo delle Palafitte, on the lake shore, displays the finds alongside reconstructed huts on stilts.
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Molina di Ledro comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d.
Valcamonica is a long, narrow valley that runs north from Lake Iseo into the Alps, and for about eight thousand years people have been carving pictures on its rocks. The Camuni, an Iron Age people, left the most, but the earliest carvings belong to hunters of the end of the ice age, and the latest belong to medieval travellers. In all, there are hundreds of thousands of figures, scratched or pecked into smooth glacial sandstone: deer, warriors, ploughmen, huts, maps, dancers and strange sun-like symbols. In 1979 it became the first site in Italy to be placed on the World Heritage list.
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about 152 km into the recorded legs you reach Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d. Next is Fiavé-Lago Carera.
Lago Carera is barely a lake any more: a damp, reedy hollow and peat bog below the village of Fiavè, in the Giudicarie valleys of western Trentino. Yet in the Bronze Age this was a lakeshore crowded with houses on wooden piles, and the waterlogged peat preserved their timbers, tools and food remains for three and a half thousand years. Fiavè is one of the pile-dwelling sites of the transnational World Heritage Site covering prehistoric settlements around the Alps, and a museum in the village shows what came out of the bog.
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Fiavé-Lago Carera, about halfway. Next is Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be.
Seradina is the part of Valcamonica that shows how the Camuni told stories. On a broad slab of polished sandstone, shaped by a glacier and now shaded by oak and chestnut, a crowd of tiny figures has been pecked into the surface: men ploughing with oxen, hunters stalking deer, warriors with round shields, huts on stilts and fields marked out in squares. The scenes were carved over many centuries by people who lived by farming and herding, and they read like a diary of an Alpine community from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Nearby, the Bedolina rock holds a famous design often described as a map, a network of lines, dots and little houses that seems to record fields and paths.
Read the complete Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be write-up.
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Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be sits at 196 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fiavé-Lago Carera.
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back through Fiavé-Lago Carera comes up about 508 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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about 624 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d. Next is back through Molina di Ledro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
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back through Molina di Ledro, late in the day. Next is Dolomiti di Brenta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
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The route ends here after 780 km.
Dolomiti di Brenta → Molina di Ledro is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molina di Ledro → Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d is 93 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d → Fiavé-Lago Carera is 120 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fiavé-Lago Carera → Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be is 119 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be → back through Fiavé-Lago Carera is 117 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fiavé-Lago Carera → back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d is 116 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d → back through Molina di Ledro is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Molina di Ledro → Dolomiti di Brenta is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.