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 306 km round trip from Bergamo - roughly 5 h 57 in the saddle. It goes by way of Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, Molina di Ledro and back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bergamo has two cities stacked on one hill. The Città Alta, the upper town, sits inside a ring of sixteenth-century walls built by the Republic of Venice, which ruled here for more than three centuries and wanted a stronghold against Milan. The walls run for about six kilometres and are pierced by gates, and UNESCO recognised them in 2017 as part of the Venetian Works of Defence between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Below lies the Città Bassa, the modern town of broad avenues and shopping streets, and a funicular links the two, a short, steep ride worth taking for its own sake.
Read the complete Fortified city of Bergamo write-up.
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Fortified city of Bergamo is where the day begins. 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.
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Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te comes up about 59 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 153 km into the recorded legs you reach Molina di Ledro. Next is back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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.
back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, late in the day. Next is Fortified city of Bergamo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortified city of Bergamo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fortified city of Bergamo. That is the ride.
Fortified city of Bergamo → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → Molina di Ledro is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molina di Ledro → back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → Fortified city of Bergamo is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.