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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Breno it runs 377 km to Breno; allow about 7 h 47 of riding. The stops in between: Parco Pluritematico, Fiavé-Lago Carera, Dolomiti di Brenta and back through Fiavé-Lago Carera. 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.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 55 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go. Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
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 is where the day begins. 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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Parco Pluritematico comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fiavé-Lago Carera.
Lago Carera is barely a lake any more: a damp, reedy hollow and peat bog below the village of Fiavè, in the Giudicarie valleys of western Trentino. Yet in the Bronze Age this was a lakeshore crowded with houses on wooden piles, and the waterlogged peat preserved their timbers, tools and food remains for three and a half thousand years. Fiavè is one of the pile-dwelling sites of the transnational World Heritage Site covering prehistoric settlements around the Alps, and a museum in the village shows what came out of the bog.
Read the complete Fiavé-Lago Carera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 153 km into the recorded legs you reach Fiavé-Lago Carera. Next is Dolomiti di Brenta.
The Brenta Dolomites stand apart from the rest of the Dolomites, a separate range west of the Adige valley, and they look as if they were carved by someone with a taste for drama: sheer walls, needle-sharp spires and long ledges of pale limestone glowing pink at dawn and dusk. The range is part of the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage site, listed in 2009, and it is protected within the Adamello Brenta Nature Park, home to brown bears, which were reintroduced here from Slovenia around the turn of the millennium.
Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
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Dolomiti di Brenta, about halfway. Next is back through Fiavé-Lago Carera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fiavé-Lago Carera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fiavé-Lago Carera sits at 151 km, 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 comes up about 348 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rock Drawings in Valcamonica.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rock Drawings in Valcamonica write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica closes the day.
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica → Parco Pluritematico is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Pluritematico → Fiavé-Lago Carera is 124 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fiavé-Lago Carera → Dolomiti di Brenta is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolomiti di Brenta → back through Fiavé-Lago Carera is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fiavé-Lago Carera → back through Parco Pluritematico is 125 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Pluritematico → Rock Drawings in Valcamonica is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.