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 Brescia it runs 392 km to Brescia; allow about 7 h 44 of riding. It goes by way of Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, Dolomiti di Brenta and back through Rock Drawings in Valcamonica. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Rock Drawings in Valcamonica.
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 comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dolomiti di Brenta.
The Brenta Dolomites stand apart from the rest of the Dolomites, a separate range west of the Adige valley, and they look as if they were carved by someone with a taste for drama: sheer walls, needle-sharp spires and long ledges of pale limestone glowing pink at dawn and dusk. The range is part of the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage site, listed in 2009, and it is protected within the Adamello Brenta Nature Park, home to brown bears, which were reintroduced here from Slovenia around the turn of the millennium.
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about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach Dolomiti di Brenta. Next is back through Rock Drawings in Valcamonica.
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back through Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, late in the day. Next is The monumental area with the monastic comp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at The monumental area with the monastic comp. That is the ride.
The monumental area with the monastic comp → Rock Drawings in Valcamonica is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica → Dolomiti di Brenta is 123 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dolomiti di Brenta → back through Rock Drawings in Valcamonica is 123 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through 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.