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 Arbizzano-Santa Maria it runs 175 km to Arbizzano-Santa Maria; allow about 3 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda, Lucone, The monumental area with the monastic comp and back through Lucone. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 25 km this is Mille Miglia Historic Route Core, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Andrea Palladio built many villas around the Veneto, but the one at Santa Sofia di Pedemonte, in the Valpolicella just north-west of Verona, is the oddball of the family. Commissioned by Marcantonio Serego in the mid-sixteenth century and never finished, it has none of the smooth classical calm of the Rotonda. Instead its courtyard is lined with giant Ionic columns built up from rough, rusticated blocks of local stone, as if the building were half turning back into the hillside. Only part of the planned design was completed, and the effect is wonderfully strange.
Read the complete Villa Serego write-up.
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Villa Serego is where the day begins. Next is Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda.
Water surrounds Peschiera on every side, and that was the whole idea. The town sits where the River Mincio flows out of the southern end of Lake Garda, and in the sixteenth century the Republic of Venice turned it into a star-shaped fortress with massive pentagonal walls, bastions and moats fed by the lake and the river. Later the Austrians made it one of the four corners of the Quadrilatero, the defensive square of fortresses that guarded their hold on northern Italy in the nineteenth century. In 2017 Peschiera became part of the UNESCO listing of Venetian works of defence between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, alongside Bergamo, Palmanova and fortresses on the Adriatic.
Read the complete Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda write-up.
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Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lucone.
Lucone is a small basin in the green hills of the Valtènesi, just west of Lake Garda, and it is one of the sites in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Once there was a little lake here, and during the Bronze Age people built villages of wooden houses raised on piles along its shore. The lake later turned to marsh and peat, which preserved the timbers, pottery and organic remains in waterlogged conditions for thousands of years. What you see today is a gentle, wooded hollow among vineyards and fields, and you need some imagination; the finds are in the archaeological museum in nearby Gavardo.
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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Lucone. Next is The monumental area with the monastic comp.
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.
Read the complete The monumental area with the monastic comp write-up.
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The monumental area with the monastic comp, about halfway. Next is back through Lucone.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lucone write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Lucone sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda comes up about 146 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Serego.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Serego write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Villa Serego closes the day.
Villa Serego → Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda → Lucone is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lucone → The monumental area with the monastic comp is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The monumental area with the monastic comp → back through Lucone is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lucone → back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda → Villa Serego is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.