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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434 km from Capo di Ponte to Capo di Ponte, about 9 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Dolomiti di Brenta, Rio delle Foglie and back through Dolomiti di Brenta. 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.
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 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.
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Dolomiti di Brenta comes up about 140 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.
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about 217 km into the recorded legs you reach Rio delle Foglie. Next is back through Dolomiti di Brenta.
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Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
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back through Dolomiti di Brenta, late in the day. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di. That is the ride.
Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di → Dolomiti di Brenta is 140 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolomiti di Brenta → Rio delle Foglie is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rio delle Foglie → back through Dolomiti di Brenta is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dolomiti di Brenta → Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di is 141 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.