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 Breno it runs 258 km to Breno; allow about 3 h 58 of riding. It goes by way of The monumental area with the monastic comp, Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and back through The monumental area with the monastic comp. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. Next is The monumental area with the monastic comp.
The centre of Brescia holds two thousand years of layered history within a few hundred metres. Along the old Roman main street, the Capitolium temple raised under Vespasian still lifts its columns above the forum, with a Roman theatre beside it, and a short walk away the monastery of San Salvatore and Santa Giulia spreads its cloisters and churches over the site of Roman houses. The monastery was founded in the eighth century by Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards, and his wife Ansa; their daughter Ermengarda, rejected by Charlemagne, is said to have ended her days here.
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The monumental area with the monastic comp comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th.
Bergamo is two cities: the busy modern town on the plain, and the Città Alta on the hill above, enclosed by massive walls built by the Republic of Venice between 1561 and 1588. Bergamo was then the westernmost outpost of Venice's mainland territory, facing the Spanish-ruled Duchy of Milan, and the walls, more than five kilometres long, were designed to withstand artillery, with bastions, platforms and gates. They were never seriously tested in battle, which is why they are so well preserved. In 2017 UNESCO listed them, together with other Venetian fortifications in Italy, Croatia and Montenegro, as the Venetian Works of Defence.
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about 128 km into the recorded legs you reach Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th. Next is back through The monumental area with the monastic comp.
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back through The monumental area with the monastic comp, late in the day. Next is 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 at Rock Drawings in Valcamonica. That is the ride.
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica → The monumental area with the monastic comp is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The monumental area with the monastic comp → Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th → back through The monumental area with the monastic comp is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The monumental area with the monastic comp → Rock Drawings in Valcamonica is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.