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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
332 km from Capo di Ponte to Capo di Ponte, about 6 h 02 of riding. It goes by way of Lucone, Mantua and Sabbioneta and back through Lucone. 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.
Valcamonica is a long, narrow valley that runs north from Lake Iseo into the Alps, and for about eight thousand years people have been carving pictures on its rocks. The Camuni, an Iron Age people, left the most, but the earliest carvings belong to hunters of the end of the ice age, and the latest belong to medieval travellers. In all, there are hundreds of thousands of figures, scratched or pecked into smooth glacial sandstone: deer, warriors, ploughmen, huts, maps, dancers and strange sun-like symbols. In 1979 it became the first site in Italy to be placed on the World Heritage list.
Read the complete Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d write-up.
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Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d is where the day begins. Next is Lucone.
Lucone is a small basin in the green hills of the Valtènesi, just west of Lake Garda, and it is one of the sites in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Once there was a little lake here, and during the Bronze Age people built villages of wooden houses raised on piles along its shore. The lake later turned to marsh and peat, which preserved the timbers, pottery and organic remains in waterlogged conditions for thousands of years. What you see today is a gentle, wooded hollow among vineyards and fields, and you need some imagination; the finds are in the archaeological museum in nearby Gavardo.
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Lucone comes up about 105 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mantua and Sabbioneta.
Approach Mantua from the north across the causeway and you see why it was so hard to conquer: the city rises from water on three sides, encircled by lakes formed from the river Mincio, its domes and towers reflected in the still surface. For nearly four centuries it belonged to the Gonzaga family, who turned a marshy town into one of the most brilliant courts of the Renaissance, and Mantua is listed by UNESCO together with Sabbioneta, the small ideal city that a branch of the same family built some thirty kilometres away.
Read the complete Mantua and Sabbioneta write-up.
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about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Mantua and Sabbioneta. Next is back through Lucone.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lucone write-up.
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back through Lucone, late in the day. Next is Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d. That is the ride.
Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d → Lucone is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Lucone → Mantua and Sabbioneta is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mantua and Sabbioneta → back through Lucone is 61 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Lucone → Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.