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.
148 km from Murten/Morat to Murten/Morat, about 2 h 24 of riding. The stops in between: Les Grèves, Port-Conty and back through Les Grèves. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 54 km this is Jura Crest Scenic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
On the southern shore of the Murtensee, just west of the medieval town of Murten, a little point of land juts into the water at Greng, and here, beneath the shallows, archaeologists found the posts of prehistoric lake villages. Greng-Spitz is one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO group of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, and while there is nothing to see but reeds, water and the occasional marker, it is pleasant to know that people lived on this shore some five thousand years ago.
Read the complete Spitz write-up.
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Spitz is where the day begins. Next is Les Grèves.
Reeds, mostly. That is the first thing you notice when you roll down to Les Grèves on the southern shore of Lake Neuchâtel: a soft wall of reed and willow between the fields and the water, with the Jura sitting long and blue on the far side of the lake. This stretch between Portalban, Gletterens and Chevroux belongs to the Grande Cariçaie, the biggest lakeshore marsh in Switzerland, and it only exists because people once moved an entire lake level.
Read the complete Les Grèves write-up.
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Les Grèves comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Port-Conty.
Under the shallow water off Port-Conty lie the remains of villages that were built on stilts more than five thousand years ago, and you will see none of them from the shore. The site, near Saint-Aubin-Sauges on the north-western side of Lake Neuchâtel, is one of the many locations in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Archaeologists have found posts, tools, pottery and remains of food preserved in the lake mud, painting a picture of Neolithic and Bronze Age communities who farmed, fished and built their houses along the water's edge.
Read the complete Port-Conty write-up.
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about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Port-Conty. Next is back through Les Grèves.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Les Grèves write-up.
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back through Les Grèves, late in the day. Next is Spitz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Spitz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Spitz. That is the ride.
Spitz → Les Grèves is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Les Grèves → Port-Conty is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Port-Conty → back through Les Grèves is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Les Grèves → Spitz is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.