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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405 km from Caneva to Caneva, about 7 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti, Rio delle Foglie and back through Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 104 km this is Great Dolomites Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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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.
Read the complete Palù di Livenza - Santissima write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Palù di Livenza - Santissima is where the day begins. Next is Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti.
The Val di San Lucano is a deep, shadowed gash in the southern Dolomites, and the point here lies near Rivamonte and Voltago, in the Agordino, the upper valley of the Cordevole river. The big, pale walls on either side belong to the Pale di San Martino group, one of the nine sets of mountains included in the Dolomites World Heritage listing of 2009, and their sheer rock faces rise more than a thousand metres above the narrow valley floor.
Read the complete Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti write-up.
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Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti comes up about 98 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rio delle Foglie.
Rio delle Foglie is the Italian name for the Bletterbach, a gorge that cuts deep into the plateau above the Adige valley, south of Bolzano, near the villages of Aldino and Redagno. It is part of the Dolomites World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2009, and it is one of the best places in the Alps to read the history of the Earth in rock. The stream has carved down through hundreds of metres of layers, from volcanic porphyry at the bottom through red sandstones to the white dolomite of the Corno Bianco at the top, spanning tens of millions of years.
Read the complete Rio delle Foglie write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 202 km into the recorded legs you reach Rio delle Foglie. Next is back through Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti, late in the day. Next is Palù di Livenza - Santissima.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palù di Livenza - Santissima write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Palù di Livenza - Santissima. That is the ride.
Palù di Livenza - Santissima → Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti → Rio delle Foglie is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rio delle Foglie → back through Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti → Palù di Livenza - Santissima is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.