CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 179 km round trip from Agliè - roughly 4 h 02 in the saddle. On the way it passes Ivrea, VI.1-Emissario, Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine and back through Ivrea. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Ivrea.
Ivrea is the town Olivetti built, or at least rebuilt. In the twentieth century the Olivetti company, famous for typewriters, calculators and some of the first personal computers, turned this small Piedmontese town into a showcase of what industry could be: factories with glass walls and natural light, worker housing, libraries, nurseries and social services designed by the best architects of the day. Adriano Olivetti believed a company should serve its community, and the result was listed by UNESCO in 2018 as an industrial city of the twentieth century. Walk along Corso Jervis and you can see the buildings still standing, some reused, some waiting.
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Ivrea comes up 20 km in. Next is VI.1-Emissario, 20 km on.
Lago di Viverone is a small, warm lake in northern Piedmont, cupped inside one of the most remarkable glacial landforms in Europe. Ice flowing out of the Aosta Valley during the last glaciations dumped a vast ring of moraine here, the Morainic Amphitheatre of Ivrea, and its eastern wall, the Serra, runs for many kilometres as an almost perfectly straight wooded ridge. The lake sits at the foot of it, with the villages of Viverone and Azeglio on its shores and Ivrea around a quarter of an hour's ride to the northwest.
Read the complete VI.1-Emissario write-up.
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40 km in you reach VI.1-Emissario.
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Read the complete Ivrea write-up.
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Ivrea, about halfway. Next is Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine.
Oropa is a sanctuary on a scale that surprises everyone who comes up the valley from Biella for the first time. At almost twelve hundred metres, in a bowl of mountains, a vast complex of churches, courtyards, porticoes and pilgrim lodgings rises in terraces, built over several centuries around an ancient chapel that holds a Black Madonna, a wooden statue of the Virgin that legend attributes to St Luke. Above the main buildings, a Sacro Monte of chapels with life-size statues illustrates the life of Mary along a wooded path. It is one of the nine Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy listed by UNESCO in 2003, and one of the most important Marian shrines in the Alps.
Read the complete Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine write-up.
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Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine sits at 81 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ivrea.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ivrea write-up.
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back through Ivrea comes up 101 km in. Next is back through VI.1-Emissario, 20 km on.
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Read the complete VI.1-Emissario write-up.
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121 km in you reach back through VI.1-Emissario.
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Read the complete Ivrea write-up.
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back through Ivrea, late in the day. Next is Castello di Agliè.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Agliè write-up.
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The route ends here after 179 km.
Castello di Agliè → Ivrea is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ivrea → VI.1-Emissario is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
VI.1-Emissario → Ivrea is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ivrea → Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine → back through Ivrea is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ivrea → back through VI.1-Emissario is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through VI.1-Emissario → back through Ivrea is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ivrea → Castello di Agliè is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.