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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302 km from Corbanese to Corbanese, about 6 h 23 of riding. It goes by way of Palù di Livenza - Santissima, Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave, Pelmo-Croda da Lago and back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 43 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
These are not soft, rolling wine hills. Between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, the foothills of the Pre-Alps rise in steep hogback ridges, sharp crests of rock running east to west, with vines clinging to slopes so steep that much of the work is still done by hand. Grass-covered terraces called ciglioni hold the soil in place, and the result is a patchwork of vines, woods and small villages that UNESCO listed in 2019.
Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
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Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is where the day begins. Next is Palù di Livenza - Santissima.
At the foot of the Cansiglio plateau, where the Friulian mountains meet the plain, the river Livenza is born from springs of cold, clear water that rise from the limestone, and a little sanctuary, the Santissima, stands right by the source, surrounded by water. Not far away, in a marshy basin called the Palù di Livenza, archaeologists found the remains of a prehistoric pile dwelling settlement, with wooden posts, tools and pottery preserved in the wet ground for thousands of years. It is one of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps listed by UNESCO, a series of more than a hundred sites in six countries that tell the story of farming communities living on the edges of lakes and marshes from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
Read the complete Palù di Livenza - Santissima write-up.
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Palù di Livenza - Santissima comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave.
The Friulian Dolomites are the quiet cousins of the famous peaks around Cortina, and that is precisely their charm. West of the Tagliamento, between the Piave and the Friulian plain, these rugged limestone mountains rise in jagged ridges and pinnacles, with deep valleys and very few roads. They are part of the UNESCO Dolomites site and form the Parco Naturale delle Dolomiti Friulane, a wild area of forests, gorges and rock towers, including the extraordinary Campanile di Val Montanaia, a needle of rock standing alone in a high valley like a stone bell tower. Chamois, ibex, golden eagles and marmots live here, and the silence on the high trails is profound.
Read the complete Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave write-up.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave. Next is Pelmo-Croda da Lago.
Monte Pelmo is the mountain that looks like a throne. Its huge limestone mass, rising to 3,168 metres, has two summits linked by a great curved basin, and the people of the Cadore call it the Caregon del Padreterno, the armchair of God. It stands alone between the valleys of the Boite and the Fiorentina, and in 1857 it became the first major Dolomite peak to be climbed, by the Irish naturalist John Ball. Across the valley, the jagged towers of the Croda da Lago rise above the little Lago Federa, and the two together form one of the components of the Dolomites World Heritage site.
Read the complete Pelmo-Croda da Lago write-up.
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Pelmo-Croda da Lago, about halfway. Next is back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave write-up.
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back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave sits at 161 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palù di Livenza - Santissima write-up.
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back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima comes up about 271 km into the recorded legs. Next is Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
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Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va closes the day.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → Palù di Livenza - Santissima is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palù di Livenza - Santissima → Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → Pelmo-Croda da Lago is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pelmo-Croda da Lago → back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.