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.
431 km from Selva di Cadore to Selva di Cadore, about 8 h 23 of riding. It goes by way of Rio delle Foglie, Villa Angarano and back through Rio delle Foglie. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 73 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
Monte Pelmo is the mountain that looks like a throne. Its huge limestone mass, rising to 3,168 metres, has two summits linked by a great curved basin, and the people of the Cadore call it the Caregon del Padreterno, the armchair of God. It stands alone between the valleys of the Boite and the Fiorentina, and in 1857 it became the first major Dolomite peak to be climbed, by the Irish naturalist John Ball. Across the valley, the jagged towers of the Croda da Lago rise above the little Lago Federa, and the two together form one of the components of the Dolomites World Heritage site.
Read the complete Pelmo-Croda da Lago write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pelmo-Croda da Lago is where the day begins. 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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Rio delle Foglie comes up about 104 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Angarano.
Bassano del Grappa sits where the river Brenta leaves the mountains and spreads onto the Venetian plain, and its symbol is a covered wooden bridge, the Ponte Vecchio, designed by Palladio in the sixteenth century and rebuilt several times since after floods and wars. On the right bank of the river, just outside the town, stands Villa Angarano, a country house whose two long colonnaded wings were designed by Palladio, while the central residence was built later, in a different style, by the Venetian architect Baldassare Longhena. The villa is still a working wine estate and belongs to the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
Read the complete Villa Angarano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 216 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Angarano. Next is back through Rio delle Foglie.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rio delle Foglie write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Rio delle Foglie, late in the day. Next is Pelmo-Croda da Lago.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pelmo-Croda da Lago write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pelmo-Croda da Lago. That is the ride.
Pelmo-Croda da Lago → Rio delle Foglie is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rio delle Foglie → Villa Angarano is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Villa Angarano → back through Rio delle Foglie is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Rio delle Foglie → Pelmo-Croda da Lago is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.