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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387 km from St. Moritz to St. Moritz, about 7 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair, Parco Pluritematico, Rock Drawings in Valcamonica and back through Parco Pluritematico. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,500 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Switzerland into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
For about 72 km this is Ofen Pass and Val Mustair, 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.
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.
The Rhaetian Railway's Albula and Bernina lines were built in the early twentieth century to connect the Engadine with the rest of Switzerland and with Italy, and they are masterpieces of mountain railway engineering, with spiral tunnels, viaducts and gradients that seem impossible for a train. They were listed by UNESCO in 2008 together with the landscapes they cross, and St. If you ride in this area, you will see the red trains everywhere, and you will often be riding beside them.
Read the complete Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L write-up.
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Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L is where the day begins. Next is Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair.
In the high, narrow Val Mustair, at the point where Switzerland meets South Tyrol and the Stelvio national park, there is a Benedictine convent that was founded, according to tradition, by Charlemagne himself around the year 800. Whether or not the emperor's role is exactly as the legend has it, the convent of St John is certainly Carolingian, and it keeps the largest cycle of Carolingian wall paintings anywhere. The figures, painted in the early ninth century, cover the walls of the church in red, yellow and green, in a lively, slightly naive style, with scenes from the life of David and the story of Christ, and later Romanesque frescoes were painted over them in places. UNESCO listed it in 1983.
Read the complete Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair write-up.
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Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parco Pluritematico.
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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about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach Parco Pluritematico. 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.
Read the complete Rock Drawings in Valcamonica write-up.
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Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, about halfway. Next is back through 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.
back through Parco Pluritematico sits at 223 km, about halfway. Next is back through Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair comes up about 314 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L closes the day.
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L → Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair → Parco Pluritematico is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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 → back through Parco Pluritematico is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Pluritematico → back through Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair → Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.