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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333 km from Sonico to Sonico, about 5 h 59 of riding. The stops in between: Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be, Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di and Molina di Ledro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
For about 18 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.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
28 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.
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 Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be.
Seradina is the part of Valcamonica that shows how the Camuni told stories. On a broad slab of polished sandstone, shaped by a glacier and now shaded by oak and chestnut, a crowd of tiny figures has been pecked into the surface: men ploughing with oxen, hunters stalking deer, warriors with round shields, huts on stilts and fields marked out in squares. The scenes were carved over many centuries by people who lived by farming and herding, and they read like a diary of an Alpine community from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Nearby, the Bedolina rock holds a famous design often described as a map, a network of lines, dots and little houses that seems to record fields and paths.
Read the complete Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be write-up.
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Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te. 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.
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Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di, about halfway. Next is Molina di Ledro.
In 1929, when the level of Lake Ledro was lowered to feed a hydroelectric plant, thousands of wooden posts emerged from the mud near Molina di Ledro. They were the remains of a Bronze Age pile-dwelling village, inhabited some four thousand years ago, and the finds included pottery, tools, weapons, and a canoe. Molina di Ledro is part of the UNESCO-listed Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and the Museo delle Palafitte, on the lake shore, displays the finds alongside reconstructed huts on stilts.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
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Molina di Ledro sits at 124 km, about halfway. Next is back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di.
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Read the complete Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di write-up.
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back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di comes up about 260 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te.
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Read the complete Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te write-up.
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about 287 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te. Next is back through Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be write-up.
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back through Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be, 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 333 km.
Parco Pluritematico → Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → Molina di Ledro is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molina di Ledro → back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di → back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → back through Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Be → Parco Pluritematico is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.