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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528 km from Roquebrune-Cap-Martin to Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, about 7 h 44 of riding. On the way it passes Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe, Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi and back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe. It crosses from France into Italy - carry ID and check the toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The cabin is smaller than you expect. Le Corbusier built his Cabanon in 1951 on a rocky shore at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a single room of about three and a half metres square, panelled in pine and furnished with fitted beds, a table and a few shelves. It was a retreat, a place where one of the most famous architects of the century could work and swim, and he spent a part of every summer here for years. He died in 1965 swimming in the bay just below, at the age of seventy-seven.
Read the complete Cabanon de Le Corbusier write-up.
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Cabanon de Le Corbusier 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.
Read the complete Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe write-up.
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Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe comes up about 188 km into the recorded legs. Next is Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi.
On the southern edge of Turin, at the end of a long straight avenue lined with trees, a bronze stag stands on the dome of a palace that looks like a star dropped on the plain. The Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi was built from 1729 by the architect Filippo Juvarra for King Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy as a hunting lodge, though the word lodge hardly does justice to its grand halls, frescoed ceilings and sprawling wings. It is part of the World Heritage Site of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, inscribed in 1997.
Read the complete Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi write-up.
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about 264 km into the recorded legs you reach Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi. Next is back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe, late in the day. Next is Cabanon de Le Corbusier.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cabanon de Le Corbusier write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cabanon de Le Corbusier. That is the ride.
Cabanon de Le Corbusier → Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe is 188 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe → Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi → back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe → Cabanon de Le Corbusier is 188 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.