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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Villars-sur-Glâne it runs 83 km to Villars-sur-Glâne; allow about 1 h 46 of riding. On the way it passes Spitz, Strandboden and back through Spitz. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 20 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Strandboden.
Erlach sits at the south-western tip of Lake Biel, a little Bernese town of one steep street climbing to a castle, with vineyards on the slope behind and reed beds and beaches along the shore below. The flat ground by the water, the Strandboden, is where archaeologists have found traces of prehistoric lakeside villages, part of the network of pile dwelling sites around the Alps inscribed by UNESCO in 2011. Five or six thousand years ago farmers built their houses here on posts at the water's edge, and the waterlogged mud preserved timbers, tools, seeds and even textiles in astonishing detail.
Read the complete Strandboden write-up.
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about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Strandboden. 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 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Spitz → Strandboden is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Strandboden → back through Spitz is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Spitz → En Praz des Gueux is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.