CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Turin it runs 289 km to Turin; allow about 4 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe and back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun. 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.
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Castello del Valentino is where the day begins. Next is Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 71 km on.
On a wooded hill above the vineyards of the Monferrato, between Casale and Asti, stands the Sacro Monte di Crea, one of the nine Sacred Mountains of Piedmont and Lombardy that are listed together as a World Heritage Site. The sanctuary of Santa Maria Assunta, a pilgrimage church, sits on the slope, and above it a path climbs through the woods past a series of chapels, each with terracotta statues and painted scenes from the life of the Virgin, to the Chapel of Paradise at the summit, with a crowd of figures depicting her coronation.
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Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun comes up 71 km in. 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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142 km in you reach Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe. Next is back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 71 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun write-up.
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back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 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 → Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun → Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe → back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun → Castello del Valentino is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.