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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From Canelli it runs 372 km to Canelli; allow about 6 h 50 of riding. On the way it passes Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe, Castello di Racconigi, Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi and Sacro Monte di Belmonte. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
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Canelli and Asti Spumante 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.
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Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe comes up about 40 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.
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about 93 km into the recorded legs 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 Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
On a granite hill rising above the Canavese plain north of Turin, the Sacro Monte di Belmonte looks out over the foothills toward the Alps. The sanctuary, run by Franciscan friars, has a church and a circuit of chapels representing the stations of the Passion, built in the early eighteenth century on a site that had long been a place of pilgrimage. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy, and the walk around the chapels, under chestnut and oak trees, is calm and shady even in summer.
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Sacro Monte di Belmonte sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi.
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back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi comes up about 248 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Castello di Racconigi.
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about 280 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Castello di Racconigi. Next is back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe.
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back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe, late in the day. Next is Canelli and Asti Spumante.
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The route ends here after 372 km.
Canelli and Asti Spumante → Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe → Castello di Racconigi is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Racconigi → Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi → Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di Belmonte → back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi → back through Castello di Racconigi is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Racconigi → back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe → Canelli and Asti Spumante is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.