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 352 km round trip from Govone - roughly 5 h 24 in the saddle. On the way it passes Reggia di Venaria Reale, Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine and back through Reggia di Venaria Reale. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Govone is a village of eight hundred people in the Roero, the hilly country on the left bank of the Tanaro across from the Langhe, and it is dominated by a palace far too grand for its size. The Castello di Govone was a residence of the House of Savoy, rebuilt in the baroque style in the eighteenth century, and it is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Inside are rooms decorated with Chinese wallpaper, and outside, terraced gardens look down over the valley.
Read the complete Castello di Govone write-up.
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Castello di Govone is where the day begins. Next is Reggia di Venaria Reale.
The Reggia di Venaria Reale lies ten kilometres north-west of the centre of Turin, at the edge of the Piedmontese plain, with the white wall of the Alps visible on a clear day behind the Lanzo valleys. The Savoy dukes built it as a hunting lodge, and it grew into one of the largest palaces in Europe, now at the centre of a town of thirty-three thousand people that carries its name.
Read the complete Reggia di Venaria Reale write-up.
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Reggia di Venaria Reale comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine. Next is back through Reggia di Venaria Reale.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Reggia di Venaria Reale write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Reggia di Venaria Reale, late in the day. Next is Castello di Govone.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Govone write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Castello di Govone. That is the ride.
Castello di Govone → Reggia di Venaria Reale is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Reggia di Venaria Reale → Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine → back through Reggia di Venaria Reale is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Reggia di Venaria Reale → Castello di Govone is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.