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 192 km round trip from Rivoli - roughly 3 h 55 in the saddle. It goes by way of Palazzo Madama, Castello di Agliè, Ivrea and VI.1-Emissario. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Rivoli stands on a ridge at the mouth of the Susa valley, where the Alps give way to the plain of Turin, and the Savoy dukes liked it for exactly that reason: from the castle terrace, you can see the city to the east and the wall of mountains to the west. A fortress stood here in the Middle Ages, and in the eighteenth century the architect Filippo Juvarra began to rebuild it as a grand residence for Victor Amadeus II. The duke, who had become King of Sardinia, ended his days here in 1732, reportedly confined by his own son, and the great project was never finished.
Read the complete Castello di Rivoli write-up.
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Castello di Rivoli is where the day begins. Next is Palazzo Madama.
Turin was Italy's first capital, and the Palazzo Madama in the middle of Piazza Castello was its first parliament. When the kingdom was proclaimed in 1861, the Senate met in a room inside this strange building, a medieval castle with a baroque facade added in the early eighteenth century by the architect Filippo Juvarra. The name comes from the royal widows, the Madama Reali, who lived here in the seventeenth century, among them Christine of France. Today it houses the city's museum of ancient art, and the staircase and facade are among the most beautiful in Italy. The whole ensemble of Savoy residences in and around Turin is listed by UNESCO.
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Palazzo Madama comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Castello di Agliè. 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, about halfway. Next is VI.1-Emissario, 24 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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VI.1-Emissario sits at 98 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 about 115 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Castello di Agliè.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Agliè write-up.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Castello di Agliè. Next is back through Palazzo Madama.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palazzo Madama write-up.
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back through Palazzo Madama, late in the day. Next is Castello di Rivoli.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Rivoli write-up.
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The route ends here after 192 km.
Castello di Rivoli → Palazzo Madama is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palazzo Madama → Castello di Agliè is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Ivrea is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ivrea → back through Castello di Agliè is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Agliè → back through Palazzo Madama is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palazzo Madama → Castello di Rivoli is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.