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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Fiesch it runs 254 km to Fiesch; allow about 4 h 23 of riding. It goes by way of Sacro Monte Calvario, Mercurago and back through Sacro Monte Calvario. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Switzerland into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 65 km this is Simplon Pass Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
No road comes anywhere near. This is a landscape of ice, rock and sky, the first Alpine area to be listed as a World Heritage site, and the riding is all around it rather than through it.
Read the complete Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch is where the day begins. Next is Sacro Monte Calvario.
Domodossola's holy mountain rises immediately above the town, on the wooded Mattarella hill, and the walk or ride up gives you the whole Ossola valley at your feet. The Sacro Monte Calvario was begun in the seventeenth century as a devotional path of chapels depicting the Passion of Christ, each holding painted and sculpted scenes, leading up to a sanctuary church at the top. It is one of the nine Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy inscribed together on the UNESCO list, and it has a particular link with Antonio Rosmini, the philosopher-priest who founded his religious institute here in the nineteenth century.
Read the complete Sacro Monte Calvario write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sacro Monte Calvario comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mercurago.
Just south of Arona, at the southern tip of Lago Maggiore, a small regional park protects a landscape of woods, meadows and peat bogs called the Lagoni di Mercurago. The lagoni are small ponds and wetlands formed after the retreat of the glaciers, and in the nineteenth century, while peat was being dug, the remains of a Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement were found here, including a wooden wheel. Mercurago is part of the UNESCO site of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
Read the complete Mercurago write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach Mercurago. Next is back through Sacro Monte Calvario.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sacro Monte Calvario write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sacro Monte Calvario, late in the day. Next is Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch. That is the ride.
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch → Sacro Monte Calvario is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte Calvario → Mercurago is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mercurago → back through Sacro Monte Calvario is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sacro Monte Calvario → Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.