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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239 km from Capo di Ponte to Capo di Ponte, about 4 h of riding. On the way it passes Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, The monumental area with the monastic comp, Lavagnone and back through The monumental area with the monastic comp. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
27 km that neither climbs nor drops much. The road settles into the ground rather than fighting it — this is where a day makes up time without anyone trying. Third and fourth, and very little else.
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For about 34 km this is Mille Miglia Historic Route Core, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Several thousand years of people have been scratching pictures onto the rocks of Val Camonica, and the oldest are thought to be roughly eight thousand years old. The valley runs north from Lake Iseo in Lombardy, following the Oglio river up to the Tonale pass, and its glacier-polished sandstone slabs turned out to be an ideal canvas. The Camuni, an Iron Age people, carved thousands of figures: hunters, deer, warriors, ploughs, huts, dancing figures and a swirling sun-like motif that is now the emblem of the Lombardy region, the Rosa Camuna. In 1979 this became Italy's first World Heritage site.
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Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di 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.
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 comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach The monumental area with the monastic comp. Next is Lavagnone.
Lavagnone does not look like much, and that is rather the point. South of Lake Garda, behind Desenzano, the landscape is a rumple of low hills left by the glacier that once filled the lake basin, and in a hollow among them lies a small peat basin that was once a shallow lake. Around four thousand years ago, in the Bronze Age, people built houses on timber piles at its edge, and when the water level fell and the peat built up, the wood was preserved in the mud like a time capsule.
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Lavagnone, about halfway. Next is back through The monumental area with the monastic comp.
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back through The monumental area with the monastic comp sits at 155 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 213 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di write-up.
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Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di closes the day.
Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 26 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 → Lavagnone is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lavagnone → back through The monumental area with the monastic comp is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.