CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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382 km from Chens-sur-Léman to Chens-sur-Léman, about 5 h 44 of riding. On the way it passes Stations de Morges, The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, Baie de Clendy and Les Grèves. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from France into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 38 km this is Route des Grandes Alpes, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
On the French shore of Lake Geneva, just across the border from Switzerland, the village of Chens-sur-Léman sits among fields and woods above the water. Along its shoreline, at places such as Tougues and Les Grèves, the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings lie in the shallow water, and they are part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps World Heritage site. On calm days, when the water is clear and low, it is sometimes possible to see the stumps of ancient wooden piles sticking out of the lakebed, a quiet reminder of the people who lived here thousands of years ago.
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Littoral de Chens-sur-Léman is where the day begins. Next is Stations de Morges.
On a calm morning the lake off Morges is as flat as polished pewter, with the Savoy Alps on the far shore and Mont Blanc floating above them, and it is hard to believe that anyone ever had to fight for this view. Yet people have been living right here for millennia. Just off the shore, in the shallow water near the town, lie the remains of prehistoric villages built on piles, the Stations de Morges, one of the Swiss components of the UNESCO Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Divers and archaeologists have mapped wooden posts and objects from the Bronze Age, but from the shore you will see only water, swans and the occasional paddleboarder.
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Stations de Morges comes up 39 km in. Next is The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier.
On the shore of Lake Geneva at Corseaux, just west of Vevey, stands a low white house, long and narrow, with a single strip window running along its lakeside facade. It looks modest, almost plain, but it is one of the key buildings of modern architecture. Le Corbusier, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss Jura, designed it in the early 1920s for his parents, and the Villa Le Lac, also called the Petite Maison, was an early demonstration of his ideas: a ribbon window framing the view, a roof garden, an open plan. Since 2016 it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, which includes seventeen sites in seven countries.
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78 km in you reach The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier. Next is Baie de Clendy.
At the southern tip of Lake Neuchâtel, just east of Yverdon-les-Bains, the shore curves into a shallow bay fringed with reeds, poplars and a beach where local families swim in summer. Behind it, in a meadow, stands a double row of tall grey stones. These are the menhirs of Clendy, raised by Neolithic farmers more than five thousand years ago and re-erected in the twentieth century after they were found toppled in the ground. Offshore and along the bay lie the remains of lakeside settlements of the same era, part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
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Baie de Clendy, about halfway. Next is Les Grèves.
Reeds, mostly. That is the first thing you notice when you roll down to Les Grèves on the southern shore of Lake Neuchâtel: a soft wall of reed and willow between the fields and the water, with the Jura sitting long and blue on the far side of the lake. This stretch between Portalban, Gletterens and Chevroux belongs to the Grande Cariçaie, the biggest lakeshore marsh in Switzerland, and it only exists because people once moved an entire lake level.
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Les Grèves sits at 157 km, about halfway. Next is back through Baie de Clendy.
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back through Baie de Clendy comes up 196 km in. Next is back through The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier.
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235 km in you reach back through The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier. Next is back through Stations de Morges.
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back through Stations de Morges, late in the day. Next is Littoral de Chens-sur-Léman.
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The route ends here after 382 km.
Littoral de Chens-sur-Léman → Stations de Morges is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stations de Morges → The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier → Baie de Clendy is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baie de Clendy → Les Grèves is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Les Grèves → back through Baie de Clendy is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Baie de Clendy → back through The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier → back through Stations de Morges is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stations de Morges → Littoral de Chens-sur-Léman is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.