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 104 km round trip from Druento - roughly 2 h 16 in the saddle. The stops in between: Castello del Valentino, Castello di Racconigi and back through Castello del Valentino. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria write-up.
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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.
Read the complete Castello del Valentino write-up.
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Castello del Valentino comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Castello di Racconigi write-up.
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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Castello di Racconigi. Next is back through Castello del Valentino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello del Valentino write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Castello del Valentino, late in the day. Next is Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria. That is the ride.
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 Racconigi is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Racconigi → back through Castello del Valentino is 38 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.