Rides
Garda at First Light
The eastern shore before the traffic wakes, when the lake is a sheet and the road belongs to whoever got up.
Rides
The Lessinia High Road
Up out of the vineyards onto the plateau, where the walls are dry-stone, the sky is enormous, and almost nobody goes.
Lessinia is the reason people who know the area stop talking about Garda. It sits directly above Verona, it climbs steadily for a long time, and at the top the landscape changes completely: pale grass, dry-stone walls, stone barns, roads that go for kilometres without a car.
This is the day that explains why VCC is headquartered where it is. You can ride from a city of two thousand years into genuine emptiness in ninety minutes.
What happens
- 01Out of Verona early, through the lower vineyards.
- 02The long climb onto the plateau, split by ability, regrouped at the top.
- 03Lunch somewhere unremarkable and very good.
- 04A descent that is worth the entire morning.
A sequence, not a schedule. Times are set once dates are fixed.