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 431 km to Sellero; allow about 9 h 10 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.
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 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 138 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.
Read the complete Rio delle Foglie write-up.
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about 215 km into the recorded legs you reach Rio delle Foglie. Next is back through Dolomiti di Brenta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
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back through Dolomiti di Brenta, late in the day. 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.
Back at Parco Comunale di Sellero. That is the ride.
Parco Comunale di Sellero → Dolomiti di Brenta is 138 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 Comunale di Sellero is 140 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.