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Chiesa di Sottocastello – View of the Valley loop from Suppiane

Chiesa di Sottocastello – View of the Valley loop from Suppiane

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Chiesa di Sottocastello – View of the Valley loop from Suppiane

01:27

27.4km

490m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 15, 2026

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4.50 km

Chiesa di Sottocastello

Highlight • Religious Site

6.86 km

Perarolo di Cadore Downhill Section

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Perarolo

It was from this area that the rafts left for the transport of wood to the Republic of Venice by river, a traffic which for many centuries, starting from the second half of the 14th century, was the basis of the economy of this predominantly wooded area. .
In the early twentieth century, also due to the arrival of the railway in the valley (1913), the centuries-old economic model based on the exploitation of timber declined and with it the strategic role of Perarolo as a river port. In the 1980s, the construction of the new section of the Alemagna state road of the Ponte Cadore viaduct downgraded the Cavalera road, until then the only connection practicable by motorized vehicles between Longarone and Cortina d'Ampezzo. The center of Perarolo thus found itself severely isolated from the new directions of mobility.

It was from this area that the rafts left for the transport of wood to the Republic of Venice by river, a traffic which for many centuries, starting from the second half of the 14th century, was the basis of the economy of this predominantly wooded area .
In the early twentieth century, also due to the arrival of the railway in the valley (1913), the centuries-old economic model based on the exploitation of timber declined and with it the strategic role of Perarolo as a river port. In the 1980s, the construction of the new section of the Alemagna state road of the Ponte Cadore viaduct downgraded the Cavalera road, until then the only connection practicable by motorized vehicles between Longarone and Cortina d'Ampezzo. The center of Perarolo thus found itself severely isolated from the new directions of mobility.

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13.8 km

Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Health

Highlight • Religious Site

The church replaced a sixteenth-century chapel, demolished for the construction of the old Alemagna state road that still runs alongside the building. It was consecrated in 1825 but expanded in 1850 with the addition of the pronaos. Inside there is a fresco depicting a Madonna with Child placed behind a seventeenth-century wooden altar. A small perforated door, now hanging on the side wall, completed the whole.

On the fresco you can see geometric engravings probably indicating "house signs" of the merchants or raftsmen who passed through here on their way to work in Perarolo.

Tradition has it that a passing raftsman hit the image of the Madonna with an angier (a tool for hooking logs) ruining her eye and that, as punishment, he died in the Piave on the raft he was sailing on, right at the height of Macchietto and that his son himself lost his eye in an accident and so did all his family members for seven generations.

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17.1 km

Hotel of Perarolo di Cadore

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A town of less than 400 inhabitants in the province of Belluno, Perarolo is located not far from the confluence of the Boite and the Piave. Of particular interest in the municipal territory is the Museum of the cìdolo and of the timber, where the first is a typical structure of the Cadore that blocked the trunks that descended by river, allowing the water to flow.

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