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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93 km from Darfo Boario Terme to Darfo Boario Terme, about 1 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di, Parco Pluritematico and back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
For about 20 km this is Mortirolo Pass Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is where the day begins. Next is Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di.
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.
Read the complete Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parco Pluritematico.
Valcamonica holds one of the largest collections of prehistoric rock carvings in the world, some three hundred thousand figures pecked into the smooth glacier-polished rocks of the valley over thousands of years, from hunters and deer to warriors, ploughs, houses and mysterious symbols. It was the first Italian site to be listed by UNESCO, in 1979. In the upper valley, near Sonico, a few kilometres south of Edolo, a multi-themed park around the rocks of Còren de le Fate, the fairies' rock, offers carvings, nature trails and an insight into the life of the valley.
Read the complete Parco Pluritematico write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Parco Pluritematico. Next is back through 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 through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di, 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 → Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di → Parco Pluritematico is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Pluritematico → back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.