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 Cortina d'Ampezzo it runs 448 km to Cortina d'Ampezzo; allow about 8 h 42 of riding. The stops in between: Sciliar-Catinaccio, Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and back through Sciliar-Catinaccio. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 102 km this is Passo di Giau · Dolomites, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
North of Cortina d'Ampezzo, the valley narrows between walls of pale rock, and the road toward Dobbiaco threads through a landscape that looks almost too dramatic to be real. Here, between the Cristallo group to the east and the high plateaus of Fanes and Sennes to the west, you are in the heart of the Dolomites, the mountains UNESCO inscribed in 2009 for their extraordinary beauty and geology. The rock is dolomite, a magnesium-rich limestone formed from ancient coral reefs in a tropical sea some two hundred and fifty million years ago, and the way it catches the evening light, turning pink and orange, has a name of its own in the local Ladin language: enrosadira.
Read the complete The Dolomites write-up.
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The Dolomites is where the day begins. Next is Sciliar-Catinaccio.
Watch the Rosengarten at sunset from the valley of Bolzano and you will understand the legend. As the sun goes down, the pale dolomite peaks glow pink, then red, then purple, a phenomenon the Ladin people call enrosadira. According to the old story, King Laurin of the dwarves had a magnificent rose garden here, and when he was captured by enemies who had spotted his roses, he cursed the garden so that no one would see it by day or by night. He forgot the twilight, and so, for a few minutes each evening, the roses bloom again on the rocks. Together with the Sciliar, or Schlern, the great flat-topped massif to the north, the Catinaccio forms one of the components of the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage site, listed in 2009.
Read the complete Sciliar-Catinaccio write-up.
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Sciliar-Catinaccio comes up about 102 km into the recorded legs. Next is Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
These are not soft, rolling wine hills. Between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, the foothills of the Pre-Alps rise in steep hogback ridges, sharp crests of rock running east to west, with vines clinging to slopes so steep that much of the work is still done by hand. Grass-covered terraces called ciglioni hold the soil in place, and the result is a patchwork of vines, woods and small villages that UNESCO listed in 2019.
Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
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about 224 km into the recorded legs you reach Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va. Next is back through Sciliar-Catinaccio.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sciliar-Catinaccio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sciliar-Catinaccio, late in the day. Next is The Dolomites.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Dolomites write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The Dolomites. That is the ride.
The Dolomites → Sciliar-Catinaccio is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sciliar-Catinaccio → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → back through Sciliar-Catinaccio is 123 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sciliar-Catinaccio → The Dolomites is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.