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 Sonico it runs 366 km to Sonico; allow about 6 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, The monumental area with the monastic comp, Lavagnone and City of Verona. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 34 km this is Mille Miglia Historic Route Core, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
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Parco Pluritematico 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 44 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 104 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 City of Verona.
Verona is where the north of Italy starts to feel like the south, and where history piles up in layers so thick that you trip over them. The Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, still dominates Piazza Bra and still hosts opera in summer, with tens of thousands of people sitting on stone steps two thousand years old. The Adige river swings through town in a double bend, crossed by bridges including the Ponte Pietra, part Roman and rebuilt after the Germans blew it up in 1945. And of course there is Juliet's balcony, which was added to a medieval house in the twentieth century to satisfy visitors searching for the Shakespeare story; people queue to rub the breast of her bronze statue for luck.
Read the complete City of Verona write-up.
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City of Verona sits at 182 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lavagnone.
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Read the complete Lavagnone write-up.
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back through Lavagnone comes up about 229 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 262 km into the recorded legs you reach back through The monumental area with the monastic comp. 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, late in the day. Next is Parco Pluritematico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Pluritematico write-up.
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The route ends here after 366 km.
Parco Pluritematico → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 44 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 → City of Verona is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City of Verona → back through Lavagnone is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 Pluritematico is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.