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.
A 403 km round trip from Fiavè - roughly 8 h 35 in the saddle. The stops in between: Dolomiti di Brenta, Parco Pluritematico, Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te and back through Parco Pluritematico. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 27 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 124 km this is Gavia Pass, 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.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Dolomiti di Brenta.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dolomiti di Brenta comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Parco Pluritematico. Next is Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te.
Valcamonica, the long valley of the Oglio river north of Lake Iseo, holds one of the largest collections of prehistoric rock carvings in the world, with hundreds of thousands of figures pecked into smooth glacier-polished rocks over thousands of years. It was the first site in Italy to be listed by UNESCO, in 1979. The Luine park, on a wooded hill above Darfo Boario Terme at the southern end of the valley, is one of the places where you can see these engravings up close, with paths leading between rock surfaces covered in figures of animals, people, weapons and mysterious symbols.
Read the complete Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, about halfway. Next is back through Parco Pluritematico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Pluritematico write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Parco Pluritematico sits at 171 km, about halfway. Next is back through 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 through Dolomiti di Brenta comes up about 369 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Fiavé-Lago Carera closes the day.
Fiavé-Lago Carera → Dolomiti di Brenta is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolomiti di Brenta → Parco Pluritematico is 124 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Pluritematico → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → back through Parco Pluritematico is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Pluritematico → back through Dolomiti di Brenta is 123 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dolomiti di Brenta → Fiavé-Lago Carera is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.