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.
305 km from Saint-Jorioz to Saint-Jorioz, about 5 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: Port, Lavaux and back through Port. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from France into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 91 km this is Route des Grandes Alpes, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Sevrier, on the western shore of Lake Annecy, is home to an unusual industry: bells. The Paccard foundry, which has been casting bells since the late eighteenth century and moved to Sevrier in the 1980s, has made bells for churches and carillons all over the world, and its museum explains how they are designed, cast and tuned. It is a curious contrast to the quiet lakeshore just below the village, where the Secteur des Mongets marks the remains of a prehistoric village built on the edge of the lake, now under water. It is one of the sites included in the World Heritage listing of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and divers have found wooden piles, pottery and tools in the lake bed.
Read the complete Secteur des Mongets write-up.
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Secteur des Mongets is where the day begins. Next is Port.
Lake Geneva, which the locals call the Leman, is the largest lake in western Europe, and its southern shore, curving between Geneva and the French border, is where the river Rhone leaves the water. The little places of Corsier-Port and Anieres lie on the left bank, among villas, vineyards and gardens that slope down to the water, and they are among the most elegant addresses in the canton. The French shore across the lake rises into the mountains of Chablais, and on a clear day the whole range of the Mont Blanc can be seen to the south-east, a white line above the water.
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Port comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lavaux.
From the shore of Lake Geneva the vineyards of Lavaux climb almost vertically, terrace upon terrace, held up by stone walls, to villages perched on the slopes above. Monks from Cistercian abbeys began shaping these hillsides in the Middle Ages, and generations of winegrowers have rebuilt the walls ever since, carrying soil back up when rain washes it down. The result is one of the most striking wine landscapes in the world, stretching about thirty kilometres between Lausanne and Montreux, and listed by UNESCO in 2007. Locals like to say that the vines here enjoy three suns: the one in the sky, its reflection off the lake and the warmth stored in the stone walls.
Read the complete Lavaux write-up.
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about 152 km into the recorded legs you reach Lavaux. Next is back through Port.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Port write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Port, late in the day. Next is Secteur des Mongets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Secteur des Mongets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Secteur des Mongets. That is the ride.
Secteur des Mongets → Port is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Port → Lavaux is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lavaux → back through Port is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Port → Secteur des Mongets is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.