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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326 km from Canelli to Canelli, about 5 h 03 of riding. It goes by way of Castello di Racconigi, Castello di Agliè and back through Castello di Racconigi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Canelli and Asti Spumante write-up.
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Canelli and Asti Spumante is where the day begins. 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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Castello di Racconigi comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Castello di Agliè write-up.
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about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach Castello di Agliè. Next is back through Castello di Racconigi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Racconigi write-up.
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back through Castello di Racconigi, late in the day. Next is Canelli and Asti Spumante.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Canelli and Asti Spumante write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Canelli and Asti Spumante. That is the ride.
Canelli and Asti Spumante → Castello di Racconigi is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Racconigi → Castello di Agliè is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Castello di Agliè → back through Castello di Racconigi is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Castello di Racconigi → Canelli and Asti Spumante is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.