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 237 km round trip from Darfo Boario Terme - roughly 4 h 13 in the saddle. On the way it passes Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th, Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari and back through Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th write-up.
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Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari.
Most people who come to Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan are here for one painting, and they are right to be. On the wall of the old refectory of the Dominican convent, Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last Supper in the 1490s for Duke Ludovico Sforza, and despite his experimental technique, which began to fail almost at once, despite centuries of damage and despite a bomb that destroyed much of the building in 1943, the painting survives. The wall was protected with sandbags, and the long restoration completed in 1999 revealed colours and faces that had been hidden for centuries.
Read the complete Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari write-up.
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about 119 km into the recorded legs you reach Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari. Next is back through Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th, late in the day. Next is 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 at Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te. That is the ride.
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 → Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Mari → back through Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.