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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443 km from Genoa to Genoa, about 7 h 52 of riding. On the way it passes Canelli and Asti Spumante, Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe, Castello di Racconigi and Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Genoa never tried to be pretty in the way Florence or Venice did. It tried to be rich, and succeeded, and the Strade Nuove, the new streets laid out in the sixteenth century, are the proof. The city's banking families, who financed the Spanish crown for decades, built palaces along Via Garibaldi, Via Balbi and Via Cairoli, and they did it on a steep, crowded slope where there was no room for gardens, so the grandeur is stacked into courtyards, loggias and monumental staircases. The palaces were registered in the Rolli, official lists that told the republic which houses should host visiting kings and cardinals, a bit like a medieval hotel guide for diplomats. UNESCO listed the system in 2006.
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Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of t is where the day begins. Next is Canelli and Asti Spumante.
Under the streets of Canelli runs a second town, made of brick tunnels and vaulted galleries cut into the hillside, where for well over a century sparkling wine has rested in the cool and the dark. The locals call them the underground cathedrals, and they are the reason this small Piedmontese town is part of the UNESCO listing of the vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato. Canelli was one of the places where Italian sparkling wine was pioneered in the nineteenth century, using the local Moscato grape, and the town's big wine houses still welcome visitors into their cellars by appointment.
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Canelli and Asti Spumante comes up about 97 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe.
Barolo the village has a few hundred inhabitants and a castle; Barolo the wine has a worldwide reputation built on the Nebbiolo grape and on the peculiar soils and slopes of these hills south of Alba. Around the village, the Langhe rise in steep ridges striped with vineyards, each hill crowned with a village, a castle or a church tower: La Morra, Monforte d'Alba, Serralunga, Castiglione Falletto, Novello. In 2014 UNESCO listed the vineyard landscapes of the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato for the way centuries of winemaking have shaped every slope, every row, every cellar.
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about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe. Next is Castello di Racconigi.
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, about halfway. 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 sits at 198 km, about halfway. Next is back through Castello di Racconigi.
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back through Castello di Racconigi comes up about 254 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe.
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Read the complete Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe write-up.
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about 304 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe. Next is back through Canelli and Asti Spumante.
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Read the complete Canelli and Asti Spumante write-up.
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back through Canelli and Asti Spumante, late in the day. Next is Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of t.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of t write-up.
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The route ends here after 443 km.
Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of t → Canelli and Asti Spumante is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Canelli and Asti Spumante → Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe → Castello di Racconigi is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Castello di Racconigi is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Racconigi → back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe → back through Canelli and Asti Spumante is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Canelli and Asti Spumante → Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of t is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.