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 260 km round trip from Agliè - roughly 4 h 35 in the saddle. It goes by way of Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, Grinzane Cavour Castle and back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 73 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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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Castello di Agliè is where the day begins. Next is Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 70 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.
Read the complete Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun write-up.
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Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 131 km into the recorded legs you reach Grinzane Cavour Castle. Next is back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 70 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, late in the day. Next is Castello di Agliè.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Agliè write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Castello di Agliè. That is the ride.
Castello di Agliè → Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun → Grinzane Cavour Castle is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Grinzane Cavour Castle → back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 64 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 di Agliè is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.