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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301 km from Govone to Govone, about 5 h 07 of riding. It goes by way of Reggia di Venaria Reale, Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun and back through Reggia di Venaria Reale. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
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Reggia di Venaria Reale comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 69 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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about 148 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun. Next is back through Reggia di Venaria Reale.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Reggia di Venaria Reale write-up.
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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 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Reggia di Venaria Reale → Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun → back through Reggia di Venaria Reale is 75 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.