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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A 372 km round trip from Turin - roughly 7 h 17 in the saddle. The stops in between: Castello di Agliè, Sacro Monte di Belmonte, Castello di Racconigi and Castello di Govone. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Turin looks like a city drawn with a ruler. The old Roman grid, recast by the dukes of Savoy into broad avenues and arcaded streets, gives it a clarity unusual in Italy, and about eighteen kilometres of porticoes shelter pedestrians from the rain. It was the first capital of unified Italy in 1861, and it still has an air of formal elegance, with palaces, royal residences and baroque churches. Beyond the arcades, the Alps seem to stand at the end of every avenue, with Monviso, the pyramid peak, visible on clear days.
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Turin is where the day begins. Next is Castello di Agliè.
Agliè is a small town in the Canavese, the hilly district north of Turin that spreads between the Po plain and the mouths of the Alpine valleys, and its castle is far grander than the town around it. Begun as a medieval fortress by the San Martino counts, it was transformed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries into a baroque residence and later bought by the House of Savoy, who turned it into a summer palace with richly decorated rooms, a chapel, a theatre and a large park with fountains and a lake. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, a ring of palaces around Turin, and Italian television viewers may recognise it from a popular costume drama filmed there.
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Castello di Agliè comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
On a granite hill rising above the Canavese plain north of Turin, the Sacro Monte di Belmonte looks out over the foothills toward the Alps. The sanctuary, run by Franciscan friars, has a church and a circuit of chapels representing the stations of the Passion, built in the early eighteenth century on a site that had long been a place of pilgrimage. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy, and the walk around the chapels, under chestnut and oak trees, is calm and shady even in summer.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte di Belmonte. Next is Castello di Racconigi.
Racconigi is a small town on the plain south of Turin, in Piedmont, surrounded by fields of maize and rice and lines of poplars. It is dominated by its castle, a grand residence of the House of Savoy, which ruled Piedmont and later Italy. Originally a medieval fortress, it was transformed over the centuries into a palace, with Baroque and neoclassical façades, and surrounded by a vast park with lakes, woods and a farm. The castle is part of the UNESCO-listed Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, inscribed in 1997.
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Castello di Racconigi, about halfway. Next is Castello di Govone.
Govone is a village of eight hundred people in the Roero, the hilly country on the left bank of the Tanaro across from the Langhe, and it is dominated by a palace far too grand for its size. The Castello di Govone was a residence of the House of Savoy, rebuilt in the baroque style in the eighteenth century, and it is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Inside are rooms decorated with Chinese wallpaper, and outside, terraced gardens look down over the valley.
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Castello di Govone sits at 195 km, about halfway. Next is back through Castello di Racconigi.
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back through Castello di Racconigi comes up about 231 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
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about 314 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte. Next is back through Castello di Agliè.
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back through Castello di Agliè, late in the day. Next is Turin.
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The route ends here after 372 km.
Turin → Castello di Agliè is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Agliè → Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di Belmonte → Castello di Racconigi is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Castello di Racconigi → Castello di Govone is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Govone → back through Castello di Racconigi is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Racconigi → back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte → back through Castello di Agliè is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Agliè → Turin is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.