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 350 km round trip from Racconigi - roughly 6 h 37 in the saddle. It goes by way of Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Sacro Monte di Belmonte, Reggia di Venaria Reale and Castello di Agliè. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Racconigi is a small town on the plain south of Turin, in Piedmont, surrounded by fields of maize and rice and lines of poplars. It is dominated by its castle, a grand residence of the House of Savoy, which ruled Piedmont and later Italy. Originally a medieval fortress, it was transformed over the centuries into a palace, with Baroque and neoclassical façades, and surrounded by a vast park with lakes, woods and a farm. The castle is part of the UNESCO-listed Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, inscribed in 1997.
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Castello di Racconigi is where the day begins. Next is Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi.
On the southern edge of Turin, at the end of a long straight avenue lined with trees, a bronze stag stands on the dome of a palace that looks like a star dropped on the plain. The Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi was built from 1729 by the architect Filippo Juvarra for King Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy as a hunting lodge, though the word lodge hardly does justice to its grand halls, frescoed ceilings and sprawling wings. It is part of the World Heritage Site of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, inscribed in 1997.
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Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
On a granite hill rising above the Canavese plain north of Turin, the Sacro Monte di Belmonte looks out over the foothills toward the Alps. The sanctuary, run by Franciscan friars, has a church and a circuit of chapels representing the stations of the Passion, built in the early eighteenth century on a site that had long been a place of pilgrimage. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy, and the walk around the chapels, under chestnut and oak trees, is calm and shady even in summer.
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about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte di Belmonte. 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, about halfway. Next is Castello di Agliè.
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.
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Castello di Agliè sits at 162 km, about halfway. Next is back through Reggia di Venaria Reale.
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back through Reggia di Venaria Reale comes up about 216 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
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Read the complete Sacro Monte di Belmonte write-up.
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about 253 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte. Next is back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi.
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back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, late in the day. Next is Castello di Racconigi.
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Read the complete Castello di Racconigi write-up.
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The route ends here after 350 km.
Castello di Racconigi → Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi → Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di Belmonte → Reggia di Venaria Reale is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Reggia di Venaria Reale → Castello di Agliè is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Agliè → back through Reggia di Venaria Reale is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Reggia di Venaria Reale → back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte → back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi → Castello di Racconigi is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.