CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 228 km round trip from Canelli - roughly 4 h 08 in the saddle. On the way it passes Grinzane Cavour Castle, Castello di Racconigi, Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi and back through Castello di Racconigi. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 30 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 Grinzane Cavour Castle.
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the man who more or less engineered the unification of Italy, spent years as mayor of this little Langhe village before he went on to bigger things, and the square brick castle on its knoll still carries his name. He experimented with winemaking here too, at a time when Barolo was still finding its modern form, so the building sits at a neat crossroads of Piedmontese politics and Piedmontese wine.
Read the complete Grinzane Cavour Castle write-up.
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Grinzane Cavour Castle comes up 35 km in. 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.
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69 km in you reach Castello di Racconigi. 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.
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Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, about halfway. 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 sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Grinzane Cavour Castle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grinzane Cavour Castle write-up.
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back through Grinzane Cavour Castle comes up 173 km in. 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.
Canelli and Asti Spumante closes the day.
Canelli and Asti Spumante → Grinzane Cavour Castle is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grinzane Cavour Castle → Castello di Racconigi is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Racconigi → Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi → back through Castello di Racconigi is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Racconigi → back through Grinzane Cavour Castle is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grinzane Cavour Castle → Canelli and Asti Spumante is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.