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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A 342 km round trip from Molveno - roughly 6 h 54 in the saddle. It goes by way of Fiavé-Lago Carera, Molina di Ledro, Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d and Parco Pluritematico. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 19 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go — slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
For about 19 km this is Mortirolo Pass Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
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 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.
Read the complete Fiavé-Lago Carera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fiavé-Lago Carera comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Molina di Ledro. 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.
Read the complete Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d write-up.
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Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d, about halfway. Next is Parco Pluritematico.
Valcamonica holds one of the largest collections of prehistoric rock carvings in the world, some three hundred thousand figures pecked into the smooth glacier-polished rocks of the valley over thousands of years, from hunters and deer to warriors, ploughs, houses and mysterious symbols. It was the first Italian site to be listed by UNESCO, in 1979. In the upper valley, near Sonico, a few kilometres south of Edolo, a multi-themed park around the rocks of Còren de le Fate, the fairies' rock, offers carvings, nature trails and an insight into the life of the valley.
Read the complete Parco Pluritematico write-up.
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Parco Pluritematico sits at 115 km, about halfway. Next is back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d comes up about 189 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 282 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Molina di Ledro. Next is back through Fiavé-Lago Carera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fiavé-Lago Carera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fiavé-Lago Carera, 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.
The route ends here after 342 km.
Dolomiti di Brenta → Fiavé-Lago Carera is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fiavé-Lago Carera → Molina di Ledro is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molina di Ledro → Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d → Parco Pluritematico is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Pluritematico → back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d is 19 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 93 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Molina di Ledro → back through Fiavé-Lago Carera is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fiavé-Lago Carera → Dolomiti di Brenta is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.