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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From Molina di Ledro it runs 573 km to Molina di Ledro; allow about 11 h 30 of riding. On the way it passes Dolomiti di Brenta, Parco Pluritematico, Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te and The monumental area with the monastic comp. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 124 km this is Gavia Pass, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 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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Dolomiti di Brenta comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 184 km into the recorded legs you reach Parco Pluritematico. Next is Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te.
Valcamonica, the long valley of the Oglio river north of Lake Iseo, holds one of the largest collections of prehistoric rock carvings in the world, with hundreds of thousands of figures pecked into smooth glacier-polished rocks over thousands of years. It was the first site in Italy to be listed by UNESCO, in 1979. The Luine park, on a wooded hill above Darfo Boario Terme at the southern end of the valley, is one of the places where you can see these engravings up close, with paths leading between rock surfaces covered in figures of animals, people, weapons and mysterious symbols.
Read the complete Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te write-up.
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Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, about halfway. Next is The monumental area with the monastic comp.
The centre of Brescia holds two thousand years of layered history within a few hundred metres. Along the old Roman main street, the Capitolium temple raised under Vespasian still lifts its columns above the forum, with a Roman theatre beside it, and a short walk away the monastery of San Salvatore and Santa Giulia spreads its cloisters and churches over the site of Roman houses. The monastery was founded in the eighth century by Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards, and his wife Ansa; their daughter Ermengarda, rejected by Charlemagne, is said to have ended her days here.
Read the complete The monumental area with the monastic comp write-up.
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The monumental area with the monastic comp sits at 200 km, about halfway. Next is back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te write-up.
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back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te comes up about 348 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Parco Pluritematico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Pluritematico write-up.
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about 391 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Parco Pluritematico. 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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back through Dolomiti di Brenta, 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 573 km.
Molina di Ledro → Dolomiti di Brenta is 60 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 Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → The monumental area with the monastic comp is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The monumental area with the monastic comp → back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → back through Parco Pluritematico is 43 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 → Molina di Ledro is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.