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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241 km from Peschiera del Garda to Peschiera del Garda, about 4 h 47 of riding. The stops in between: Lucone, The monumental area with the monastic comp, Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te and back through The monumental area with the monastic comp. 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.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 28 km this is Lake Garda Western Shore and Strada della Forra, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Just outside Peschiera del Garda, at the southern tip of the lake, the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Frassino stands among vineyards and fields. According to legend, in 1510 a farmer working in his vineyard was threatened by a snake, prayed to the Virgin and found a small statue of the Madonna in the branches of an ash tree, frassino in Italian. The snake disappeared, and the sanctuary was built on the spot. Today it is a Franciscan church and convent, with a cloister and a collection of votive offerings left by the grateful over the centuries.
Read the complete Frassino write-up.
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Frassino is where the day begins. Next is Lucone.
Lucone is a small basin in the green hills of the Valtènesi, just west of Lake Garda, and it is one of the sites in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Once there was a little lake here, and during the Bronze Age people built villages of wooden houses raised on piles along its shore. The lake later turned to marsh and peat, which preserved the timbers, pottery and organic remains in waterlogged conditions for thousands of years. What you see today is a gentle, wooded hollow among vineyards and fields, and you need some imagination; the finds are in the archaeological museum in nearby Gavardo.
Read the complete Lucone write-up.
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Lucone comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is The monumental area with the monastic comp.
The centre of Brescia holds two thousand years of layered history within a few hundred metres. Along the old Roman main street, the Capitolium temple raised under Vespasian still lifts its columns above the forum, with a Roman theatre beside it, and a short walk away the monastery of San Salvatore and Santa Giulia spreads its cloisters and churches over the site of Roman houses. The monastery was founded in the eighth century by Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards, and his wife Ansa; their daughter Ermengarda, rejected by Charlemagne, is said to have ended her days here.
Read the complete The monumental area with the monastic comp write-up.
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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach The monumental area with the monastic comp. 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, about halfway. Next is back through The monumental area with the monastic comp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The monumental area with the monastic comp write-up.
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back through The monumental area with the monastic comp sits at 141 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lucone.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lucone write-up.
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back through Lucone comes up about 209 km into the recorded legs. Next is Frassino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Frassino write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Frassino closes the day.
Frassino → Lucone is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lucone → The monumental area with the monastic comp is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The monumental area with the monastic comp → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → back through The monumental area with the monastic comp is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The monumental area with the monastic comp → back through Lucone is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lucone → Frassino is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.