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 103 km round trip from Turin - roughly 2 h 38 in the saddle. It goes by way of Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria, Sacro Monte di Belmonte and back through Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria.
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.
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Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte di Belmonte. Next is back through 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 through Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria, late in the day. Next is 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 at Castello del Valentino. That is the ride.
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.
Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria → Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di Belmonte → back through Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.