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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359 km from Bergamo to Bergamo, about 6 h 51 of riding. The stops in between: Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di, Molina di Ledro and back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
This is where a day makes up time without anyone trying. Third and fourth, and very little else. 27 km that neither climbs nor drops much. The road settles into the ground rather than fighting it.
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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 Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di.
Several thousand years of people have been scratching pictures onto the rocks of Val Camonica, and the oldest are thought to be roughly eight thousand years old. The valley runs north from Lake Iseo in Lombardy, following the Oglio river up to the Tonale pass, and its glacier-polished sandstone slabs turned out to be an ideal canvas. The Camuni, an Iron Age people, carved thousands of figures: hunters, deer, warriors, ploughs, huts, dancing figures and a swirling sun-like motif that is now the emblem of the Lombardy region, the Rosa Camuna. In 1979 this became Italy's first World Heritage site.
Read the complete Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di write-up.
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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di. 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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Molina di Ledro, about halfway. Next is back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di.
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Read the complete Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di sits at 184 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 300 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Fortified city of Bergamo closes the day.
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 → Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di → 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 Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di → back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 27 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.