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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From Sellero it runs 246 km to Sellero; allow about 4 h 13 of riding. The stops in between: 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. The line favours views over speed.
30 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.
Valcamonica is the valley of the rock carvings, and Sellero is one of the places where you can walk among them. For about eight thousand years, from the Stone Age to Roman times, the people who lived here, especially the Camuni of the Iron Age, hammered and scratched pictures onto the smooth glacier-polished rock: hunters, deer, warriors, farmers, ploughs, huts and strange symbols. The valley holds hundreds of thousands of them, and in 1979 it became Italy's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. The municipal park at Sellero preserves a group of engraved rocks in woodland above the Oglio river, so you walk on a path and find the carvings on bare sheets of stone among the trees.
Read the complete Parco Comunale di Sellero write-up.
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Parco Comunale di Sellero 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 30 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.
Read the complete The monumental area with the monastic comp write-up.
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about 90 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.
Read the complete Lavagnone write-up.
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Lavagnone, about halfway. Next is back through The monumental area with the monastic comp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The monumental area with the monastic comp write-up.
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back through The monumental area with the monastic comp sits at 159 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te comes up about 217 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parco Comunale di Sellero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Comunale di Sellero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Parco Comunale di Sellero closes the day.
Parco Comunale di Sellero → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 30 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 Comunale di Sellero is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.