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 189 km round trip from Druento - roughly 4 h 12 in the saddle. On the way it passes Castello del Valentino, Castello di Rivoli, Palazzo Madama and Castello di Agliè. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Parco La Mandria, north-west of Turin, is the largest remnant of the royal hunting estates of the House of Savoy, and the Borgo Castello at its centre was once the heart of the estate. The word mandria means a herd, and the park began as a stud and breeding farm for horses and cattle on the plain, with the woods kept for the hunt. Today the park is a protected area of about three thousand hectares, surrounded by a wall, where visitors walk or cycle between oaks, hornbeams and meadows, and where deer and wild boar still live.
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Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria is where the day begins. Next is Castello del Valentino.
The Castello del Valentino stands on the left bank of the Po in the middle of Turin, in a park where students lie about on the grass and rowing crews slide past on the river. It looks like a French château, with pitched grey roofs, corner towers and a courtyard open to the water, and that is no accident. It was built for the dukes of Savoy and transformed in the seventeenth century by Christine of France, widow of Duke Victor Amadeus I, who wanted something of home in her adopted capital. Later it became a school of engineering and then a faculty of architecture, which gives the courtyard a pleasant, slightly scruffy academic life.
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Castello del Valentino comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Castello di Rivoli.
Rivoli stands on a ridge at the mouth of the Susa valley, where the Alps give way to the plain of Turin, and the Savoy dukes liked it for exactly that reason: from the castle terrace, you can see the city to the east and the wall of mountains to the west. A fortress stood here in the Middle Ages, and in the eighteenth century the architect Filippo Juvarra began to rebuild it as a grand residence for Victor Amadeus II. The duke, who had become King of Sardinia, ended his days here in 1732, reportedly confined by his own son, and the great project was never finished.
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about 32 km into the recorded legs you reach Castello di Rivoli. Next is Palazzo Madama.
Turin was Italy's first capital, and the Palazzo Madama in the middle of Piazza Castello was its first parliament. When the kingdom was proclaimed in 1861, the Senate met in a room inside this strange building, a medieval castle with a baroque facade added in the early eighteenth century by the architect Filippo Juvarra. The name comes from the royal widows, the Madama Reali, who lived here in the seventeenth century, among them Christine of France. Today it houses the city's museum of ancient art, and the staircase and facade are among the most beautiful in Italy. The whole ensemble of Savoy residences in and around Turin is listed by UNESCO.
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Palazzo Madama, about halfway. 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 sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palazzo Madama.
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back through Palazzo Madama comes up about 134 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Castello di Rivoli.
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about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Castello di Rivoli. Next is back through Castello del Valentino.
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back through Castello del Valentino, late in the day. Next is Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria.
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The route ends here after 189 km.
Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria → Castello del Valentino is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello del Valentino → Castello di Rivoli is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Rivoli → Palazzo Madama is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palazzo Madama → Castello di Agliè is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Agliè → back through Palazzo Madama is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palazzo Madama → back through Castello di Rivoli is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Rivoli → back through Castello del Valentino is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello del Valentino → Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.