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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A 306 km round trip from Molina di Ledro - roughly 5 h 56 in the saddle. On the way it passes Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
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Molina di Ledro is where the day begins. 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.
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Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te comes up about 94 km into the recorded legs. Next is Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th.
Bergamo is two cities: the busy modern town on the plain, and the Città Alta on the hill above, enclosed by massive walls built by the Republic of Venice between 1561 and 1588. Bergamo was then the westernmost outpost of Venice's mainland territory, facing the Spanish-ruled Duchy of Milan, and the walls, more than five kilometres long, were designed to withstand artillery, with bastions, platforms and gates. They were never seriously tested in battle, which is why they are so well preserved. In 2017 UNESCO listed them, together with other Venetian fortifications in Italy, Croatia and Montenegro, as the Venetian Works of Defence.
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about 153 km into the recorded legs you reach Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, late in the day. Next is Molina di Ledro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Molina di Ledro. That is the ride.
Molina di Ledro → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th → back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → Molina di Ledro is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.