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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403 km from Molina di Ledro to Molina di Ledro, about 8 h 39 of riding. The stops in between: Fiavé-Lago Carera, Dolomiti di Brenta, Parco Pluritematico and Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 19 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go — slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
For about 124 km this is Gavia Pass, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
In 1929, when the level of Lake Ledro was lowered to feed a hydroelectric plant, thousands of wooden posts emerged from the mud near Molina di Ledro. They were the remains of a Bronze Age pile-dwelling village, inhabited some four thousand years ago, and the finds included pottery, tools, weapons, and a canoe. Molina di Ledro is part of the UNESCO-listed Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and the Museo delle Palafitte, on the lake shore, displays the finds alongside reconstructed huts on stilts.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
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Molina di Ledro is where the day begins. Next is Fiavé-Lago Carera.
Lago Carera is barely a lake any more: a damp, reedy hollow and peat bog below the village of Fiavè, in the Giudicarie valleys of western Trentino. Yet in the Bronze Age this was a lakeshore crowded with houses on wooden piles, and the waterlogged peat preserved their timbers, tools and food remains for three and a half thousand years. Fiavè is one of the pile-dwelling sites of the transnational World Heritage Site covering prehistoric settlements around the Alps, and a museum in the village shows what came out of the bog.
Read the complete Fiavé-Lago Carera write-up.
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Fiavé-Lago Carera comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dolomiti di Brenta.
The Brenta Dolomites stand apart from the rest of the Dolomites, a separate range west of the Adige valley, and they look as if they were carved by someone with a taste for drama: sheer walls, needle-sharp spires and long ledges of pale limestone glowing pink at dawn and dusk. The range is part of the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage site, listed in 2009, and it is protected within the Adamello Brenta Nature Park, home to brown bears, which were reintroduced here from Slovenia around the turn of the millennium.
Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
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about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Dolomiti di Brenta. Next is Parco Pluritematico.
Valcamonica holds one of the largest collections of prehistoric rock carvings in the world, some three hundred thousand figures pecked into the smooth glacier-polished rocks of the valley over thousands of years, from hunters and deer to warriors, ploughs, houses and mysterious symbols. It was the first Italian site to be listed by UNESCO, in 1979. In the upper valley, near Sonico, a few kilometres south of Edolo, a multi-themed park around the rocks of Còren de le Fate, the fairies' rock, offers carvings, nature trails and an insight into the life of the valley.
Read the complete Parco Pluritematico write-up.
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Parco Pluritematico, about halfway. Next is Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be.
Seradina is the part of Valcamonica that shows how the Camuni told stories. On a broad slab of polished sandstone, shaped by a glacier and now shaded by oak and chestnut, a crowd of tiny figures has been pecked into the surface: men ploughing with oxen, hunters stalking deer, warriors with round shields, huts on stilts and fields marked out in squares. The scenes were carved over many centuries by people who lived by farming and herding, and they read like a diary of an Alpine community from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Nearby, the Bedolina rock holds a famous design often described as a map, a network of lines, dots and little houses that seems to record fields and paths.
Read the complete Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be write-up.
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Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be sits at 121 km, about halfway. Next is back through Parco Pluritematico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Pluritematico write-up.
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back through Parco Pluritematico comes up about 221 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Dolomiti di Brenta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
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about 344 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Dolomiti di Brenta. Next is back through Fiavé-Lago Carera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fiavé-Lago Carera write-up.
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back through Fiavé-Lago Carera, late in the day. Next is Molina di Ledro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
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The route ends here after 403 km.
Molina di Ledro → Fiavé-Lago Carera is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fiavé-Lago Carera → Dolomiti di Brenta is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolomiti di Brenta → Parco Pluritematico is 124 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Pluritematico → Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be → back through Parco Pluritematico is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Pluritematico → back through Dolomiti di Brenta is 123 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dolomiti di Brenta → back through Fiavé-Lago Carera is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fiavé-Lago Carera → Molina di Ledro is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.