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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Villars-sur-Glâne it runs 82 km to Villars-sur-Glâne; allow about 1 h 45 of riding. The stops in between: Spitz, Les Grèves and back through Spitz. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Fribourg is the town where French and German meet. It was founded in 1157 by the dukes of Zähringen on a rock in a loop of the Sarine river, and the old city still sits above the water, with a Gothic cathedral, covered wooden bridges and steep cobbled lanes. The border between the languages runs through the city, so locals switch between French and a Swiss German dialect, and the divide has a name, the Röstigraben, after the potato dish that lies on one side. Beyond the city, the canton is green and rolling, with farms, forests and pastures that produce the famous cheese of Gruyères.
Read the complete En Praz des Gueux write-up.
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En Praz des Gueux is where the day begins. Next is Spitz.
On the southern shore of the Murtensee, just west of the medieval town of Murten, a little point of land juts into the water at Greng, and here, beneath the shallows, archaeologists found the posts of prehistoric lake villages. Greng-Spitz is one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO group of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, and while there is nothing to see but reeds, water and the occasional marker, it is pleasant to know that people lived on this shore some five thousand years ago.
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Spitz comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Les Grèves.
Reeds, mostly. That is the first thing you notice when you roll down to Les Grèves on the southern shore of Lake Neuchâtel: a soft wall of reed and willow between the fields and the water, with the Jura sitting long and blue on the far side of the lake. This stretch between Portalban, Gletterens and Chevroux belongs to the Grande Cariçaie, the biggest lakeshore marsh in Switzerland, and it only exists because people once moved an entire lake level.
Read the complete Les Grèves write-up.
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about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Les Grèves. Next is back through Spitz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Spitz write-up.
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back through Spitz, late in the day. Next is En Praz des Gueux.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete En Praz des Gueux write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at En Praz des Gueux. That is the ride.
En Praz des Gueux → Spitz is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Spitz → Les Grèves is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Les Grèves → back through Spitz is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Spitz → En Praz des Gueux is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.