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 132 km round trip from Peschiera del Garda - roughly 2 h 43 in the saddle. On the way it passes San Sivino, The monumental area with the monastic comp and back through San Sivino. 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 41 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 San Sivino.
On the western shore of Lake Garda, between Manerba and Moniga, the little bay of San Sivino hides something very old under its shallows. People lived here in the Bronze Age in villages built on wooden piles at the water's edge, and the remains of their posts, tools and pottery survive in the mud of the lake. The site is one of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that UNESCO listed in 2011, a series of more than a hundred sites spread across six countries. There is nothing to see above the water, but knowing that the shore was settled thousands of years ago adds a quiet depth to an afternoon by the lake.
Read the complete San Sivino write-up.
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San Sivino comes up about 26 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 67 km into the recorded legs you reach The monumental area with the monastic comp. Next is back through San Sivino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Sivino write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through San Sivino, late in the day. 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.
Back at Frassino. That is the ride.
Frassino → San Sivino is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Sivino → The monumental area with the monastic comp is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The monumental area with the monastic comp → back through San Sivino is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through San Sivino → Frassino is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.