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 383 km to Sonico; allow about 6 h 52 of riding. It goes by way of Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, Molina di Ledro, San Sivino and back through Molina di Ledro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
31 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 80 km this is Lake Garda Western Shore and Strada della Forra, 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 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 Rock Drawings in Valcamonica.
Valcamonica is a long, deep Alpine valley running north from Lake Iseo towards the Adamello and Tonale mountains, and for something like eight thousand years people have been scratching pictures on its rocks. The Camunni, an Iron Age tribe, carved most of them, but the tradition began in the Neolithic and carried on through the Roman period and into the Middle Ages. The result is one of the largest collections of petroglyphs in the world, well over a hundred thousand figures by the common estimate, and in 1979 it became the first site in Italy to be given World Heritage status.
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Rock Drawings in Valcamonica comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 113 km into the recorded legs you reach Molina di Ledro. Next is San Sivino.
On the western shore of Lake Garda, between Manerba and Moniga, the little bay of San Sivino hides something very old under its shallows. People lived here in the Bronze Age in villages built on wooden piles at the water's edge, and the remains of their posts, tools and pottery survive in the mud of the lake. The site is one of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that UNESCO listed in 2011, a series of more than a hundred sites spread across six countries. There is nothing to see above the water, but knowing that the shore was settled thousands of years ago adds a quiet depth to an afternoon by the lake.
Read the complete San Sivino write-up.
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San Sivino, about halfway. Next is back through Molina di Ledro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
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back through Molina di Ledro sits at 183 km, about halfway. Next is back through Rock Drawings in Valcamonica.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rock Drawings in Valcamonica write-up.
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back through Rock Drawings in Valcamonica comes up about 355 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parco Pluritematico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Pluritematico write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Parco Pluritematico closes the day.
Parco Pluritematico → Rock Drawings in Valcamonica is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica → Molina di Ledro is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molina di Ledro → San Sivino is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Sivino → back through Molina di Ledro is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Molina di Ledro → back through Rock Drawings in Valcamonica is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rock Drawings in Valcamonica → Parco Pluritematico is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.