CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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527 km from Canazei to Canazei, about 9 h 40 of riding. On the way it passes The Dolomites, Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave, Palù di Livenza - Santissima and Villa Zeno. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 42 km this is Passo di Giau · Dolomites, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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The Queen of the Dolomites, they call her, and the Marmolada earns the title: at 3,343 metres, Punta Penia is the highest summit of the range, and its northern flank carries the largest glacier in the Dolomites, while the south face drops away as a sheer wall of pale limestone. That glacier is shrinking fast, and in July 2022 a large section of it collapsed, killing eleven climbers, a tragedy that brought the effects of climate change home to everyone who loves these mountains.
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Marmolada is where the day begins. Next is The Dolomites.
North of Cortina d'Ampezzo, the valley narrows between walls of pale rock, and the road toward Dobbiaco threads through a landscape that looks almost too dramatic to be real. Here, between the Cristallo group to the east and the high plateaus of Fanes and Sennes to the west, you are in the heart of the Dolomites, the mountains UNESCO inscribed in 2009 for their extraordinary beauty and geology. The rock is dolomite, a magnesium-rich limestone formed from ancient coral reefs in a tropical sea some two hundred and fifty million years ago, and the way it catches the evening light, turning pink and orange, has a name of its own in the local Ladin language: enrosadira.
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The Dolomites comes up 49 km in. 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.
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98 km in you reach Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave. 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.
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Palù di Livenza - Santissima, about halfway. Next is Villa Zeno.
Andrea Palladio designed Villa Zeno at Cessalto in the middle of the sixteenth century, and it stands among the flat fields of the lower Piave plain, about five kilometres from the little town of Ceggia and not far from the Livenza river. It is one of the villas of the Veneto that were collectively inscribed on the World Heritage list, and it is quite different from the grand Palladian pieces near Vicenza: an agricultural house, plain and practical, with a broad central block and a pair of long service wings.
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Villa Zeno sits at 195 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima.
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back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima comes up 244 km in. Next is back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave.
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293 km in you reach back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave. Next is back through The Dolomites.
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Read the complete The Dolomites write-up.
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back through The Dolomites, late in the day. Next is Marmolada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Marmolada write-up.
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The route ends here after 527 km.
Marmolada → The Dolomites is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Dolomites → Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → Palù di Livenza - Santissima is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palù di Livenza - Santissima → Villa Zeno is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Zeno → back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima → back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → back through The Dolomites is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Dolomites → Marmolada is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.