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 Turin it runs 277 km to Turin; allow about 4 h 28 of riding. On the way it passes Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe, Langa of Barolo, Nizza Monferrato and Barbera and Canelli and Asti Spumante. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe.
Barolo the village has a few hundred inhabitants and a castle; Barolo the wine has a worldwide reputation built on the Nebbiolo grape and on the peculiar soils and slopes of these hills south of Alba. Around the village, the Langhe rise in steep ridges striped with vineyards, each hill crowned with a village, a castle or a church tower: La Morra, Monforte d'Alba, Serralunga, Castiglione Falletto, Novello. In 2014 UNESCO listed the vineyard landscapes of the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato for the way centuries of winemaking have shaped every slope, every row, every cellar.
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Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Langa of Barolo.
Fog is the word that gave the Langhe's great grape its name. Nebbiolo comes from nebbia, and in October the mist fills the valleys below Barolo so thoroughly that the village seems to float on a lake of cloud, with the hills of the Langhe rising out of it row after row. The vineyards here are among the most prized in Italy, and the countryside, with its hill-top villages, castles and terraced slopes, has been listed by UNESCO together with Roero and Monferrato. Barolo itself has fewer than five hundred people, a castle once held by the Falletti family and now home to a wine museum, and a main street that is entirely devoted to selling bottles.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Langa of Barolo. Next is Nizza Monferrato and Barbera.
Barbera is the everyday red of Piedmont, the wine on every trattoria table, and around Nizza Monferrato it has been raised to something more serious. The hills between Nizza, Vinchio, Castelnuovo Calcea and Mombercelli are covered in vines, planted in rows that follow the contours of the slopes, and the best wines from this area carry their own designation, Nizza DOCG, made from barbera alone. The vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato were listed by UNESCO in 2014, and this corner of the Asti hills is a fine example of what that means: a working landscape shaped by centuries of farming, with hilltop villages, brick churches, and small family wineries at the end of gravel tracks.
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Nizza Monferrato and Barbera, about halfway. Next is Canelli and Asti Spumante.
Under the streets of Canelli runs a second town, made of brick tunnels and vaulted galleries cut into the hillside, where for well over a century sparkling wine has rested in the cool and the dark. The locals call them the underground cathedrals, and they are the reason this small Piedmontese town is part of the UNESCO listing of the vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato. Canelli was one of the places where Italian sparkling wine was pioneered in the nineteenth century, using the local Moscato grape, and the town's big wine houses still welcome visitors into their cellars by appointment.
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Canelli and Asti Spumante sits at 132 km, about halfway. Next is back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera.
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back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera comes up about 149 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Langa of Barolo.
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about 199 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Langa of Barolo. Next is back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe.
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Read the complete Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe write-up.
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back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe, late in the day. Next is Turin.
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The route ends here after 277 km.
Turin → Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Langa of Barolo → Nizza Monferrato and Barbera is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nizza Monferrato and Barbera → Canelli and Asti Spumante is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Canelli and Asti Spumante → back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera → back through Langa of Barolo is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe → Turin is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.