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 225 km round trip from Bra - roughly 3 h 21 in the saddle. On the way it passes Palazzo Carignano, Ivrea and back through Palazzo Carignano. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The village of Pollenzo was a Roman town, Pollentia, long before it was a Savoy estate, and in 402 a Roman army under Stilicho fought Alaric's Visigoths nearby in one of the last great battles of the Western Empire. Today the name means food. The castle and the neo-Gothic agricultural complex built around it by King Carlo Alberto in the nineteenth century, the Agenzia, now house the University of Gastronomic Sciences, founded by the Slow Food movement, which was born in nearby Bra. The estate is part of the UNESCO-listed Residences of the Royal House of Savoy.
Read the complete Castello di Pollenzo write-up.
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Castello di Pollenzo is where the day begins. Next is Palazzo Carignano.
Turin has a palace whose front is bent like a sail, and it is the sort of building that makes architecture students go quiet. Palazzo Carignano was designed by Guarino Guarini, a priest, mathematician and architect, and completed in the late seventeenth century. Its brick facade swells outward in a great curve, with decoration pressed into the clay in patterns, and the building seems to breathe. Guarini was one of the great figures of the baroque, and his work in Turin, including the chapel that holds the Holy Shroud, is some of the most daring in Italy.
Read the complete Palazzo Carignano write-up.
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Palazzo Carignano comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Ivrea write-up.
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about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Ivrea. Next is back through Palazzo Carignano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palazzo Carignano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Palazzo Carignano, late in the day. Next is Castello di Pollenzo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Pollenzo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Castello di Pollenzo. That is the ride.
Castello di Pollenzo → Palazzo Carignano is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palazzo Carignano → Ivrea is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ivrea → back through Palazzo Carignano is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palazzo Carignano → Castello di Pollenzo is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.