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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379 km from Genève to Genève, about 6 h 45 of riding. The stops in between: Le Crêt de Chatillon, Baie de Grésine, Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz and Baie de Châtillon. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Switzerland into France - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
In 1932, while most of Geneva was building in stone, Le Corbusier put up an apartment block made almost entirely of steel and glass. The Immeuble Clarté, in the Eaux-Vives district on the east side of the city, was revolutionary for its time: a prefabricated steel frame, huge windows that flood the apartments with light, duplex flats with double-height living rooms and a structure that allowed flexible layouts. The name means clarity, and the building lives up to it. Since 2016 it has been part of the UNESCO listing of the architectural work of Le Corbusier, alongside the Villa Savoye, the Unité d'Habitation and other buildings on several continents.
Read the complete Immeuble Clarté write-up.
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Immeuble Clarté is where the day begins. Next is Le Crêt de Chatillon.
The Crêt de Châtillon is the summit of the Semnoz, the long wooded mountain that rises above the western shore of Lake Annecy, and from the top, at around 1,700 metres, the view on a clear day is one of the finest in the French Alps: the whole lake below, the Bauges and the Aravis around, and, to the east, Mont Blanc in all its glory. Sites with names like Châtillon and Les Mongets along this shore preserve the remains of villages built on the edge of the lake thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Le Crêt de Chatillon write-up.
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Le Crêt de Chatillon comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Baie de Grésine.
Lac du Bourget is the largest natural lake in France, a long, deep lake in Savoie between the Jura and the Alps, and the poet Alphonse de Lamartine made it famous with his poem Le Lac, written after a love affair that began on its shores. The Baie de Grésine, near Brison-Saint-Innocent on the eastern shore, is one of the prehistoric pile-dwelling sites of the lake, part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps listed by UNESCO in 2011. As with other such sites, the remains lie underwater, but the bay and its surroundings are a beautiful place to stop.
Read the complete Baie de Grésine write-up.
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about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach Baie de Grésine. Next is Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz.
Lake Annecy is often called the cleanest lake in Europe, and on a summer day its water is such a startling shade of turquoise that it looks retouched. The lake fills a long valley among the limestone mountains of Haute-Savoie, with the town of Annecy at its northern end, and its western shore, around Saint-Jorioz, is a flat area of reeds and meadows, the Marais de Saint-Jorioz, where prehistoric people built villages on piles. The remains are part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, listed by UNESCO in 2011, and lie hidden under the water and the marshes.
Read the complete Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz write-up.
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Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz, about halfway. Next is Baie de Châtillon.
At the northern tip of the Lac du Bourget, the largest natural lake entirely in France, the shore curves into a shallow bay below the village of Châtillon and its castle. In the shallows, divers and archaeologists have found the remains of prehistoric lake villages, and the Baie de Châtillon is one of the French sites included in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. The castle, perched on a rocky hill above the bay, was the seat of local lords in the Middle Ages and has a commanding view over the lake.
Read the complete Baie de Châtillon write-up.
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Baie de Châtillon sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz write-up.
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back through Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz comes up about 237 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Baie de Grésine.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Baie de Grésine write-up.
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about 285 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Baie de Grésine. Next is back through Le Crêt de Chatillon.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Le Crêt de Chatillon write-up.
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back through Le Crêt de Chatillon, late in the day. Next is Immeuble Clarté.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Immeuble Clarté write-up.
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The route ends here after 379 km.
Immeuble Clarté → Le Crêt de Chatillon is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Le Crêt de Chatillon → Baie de Grésine is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baie de Grésine → Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz → Baie de Châtillon is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baie de Châtillon → back through Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz → back through Baie de Grésine is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Baie de Grésine → back through Le Crêt de Chatillon is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Le Crêt de Chatillon → Immeuble Clarté is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.