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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A 343 km round trip from Cheremule - roughly 5 h 47 in the saddle. On the way it passes Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa, Archaeological Park of Pranu Mutteddu and back through Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The north-west of Sardinia is a country of low volcanic hills, pasture, cork oak and stone, and the villages of the Logudoro are small, quiet and far older than they look. This area, around Cheremule and Giave, is dotted with traces of a world that predates the Romans by a very long time. The island's prehistoric people carved tombs into soft rock, the domus de janas, which translates as fairy houses, and built round stone towers called nuraghi, of which there are thousands.
Read the complete Petroglyph Park-a write-up.
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Petroglyph Park-a is where the day begins. Next is Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa.
The high country of central Sardinia, between the Tirso river and the hills of the Barbagia, is a landscape of basalt plateaus, cork forests, small stone villages and long, empty views. The nearest places on our list, Nughedu Santa Vittoria and Neoneli, are small villages with only a few hundred people each, and the town of Macomer is some twenty-five kilometres away. The prehistoric story here is about how the island's early people treated their dead, and the title reflects that.
Read the complete Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa write-up.
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Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Archaeological Park of Pranu Mutteddu.
The south of Sardinia is not all beaches. Inland, on the edge of the Gerrei hills, lies Pranu Mutteddu, a flat upland of granite, cork oak and scrub that holds one of the island's more striking prehistoric sites. The name means something like the plain of the little stones in Sardinian, and the place is known for its menhirs, standing stones raised several thousand years ago by Neolithic people, many of them still upright and arranged in rows or groups across the clearing.
Read the complete Archaeological Park of Pranu Mutteddu write-up.
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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Archaeological Park of Pranu Mutteddu. Next is back through Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa, late in the day. Next is Petroglyph Park-a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Petroglyph Park-a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Petroglyph Park-a. That is the ride.
Petroglyph Park-a → Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa → Archaeological Park of Pranu Mutteddu is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Archaeological Park of Pranu Mutteddu → back through Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa → Petroglyph Park-a is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.