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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270 km from Barbaresco to Barbaresco, about 3 h 48 of riding. The stops in between: Villa della Regina, Ivrea and back through Villa della Regina. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Barbaresco is a hill, a village, a tower and a wine, and in the Langhe those things are hard to separate. The village sits on a ridge above the Tanaro river a few kilometres northeast of Alba, its medieval brick tower standing over rows of vines that roll off in every direction like a green sea frozen mid-swell. Together with the neighbouring Barolo country and the Roero and Monferrato, these hills form the vineyard landscape of Piedmont listed by UNESCO in 2014.
Read the complete Hills of Barbaresco write-up.
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Hills of Barbaresco is where the day begins. Next is Villa della Regina.
Turin looks up at its hills, and on the slope above the Po stands a villa built for those who wanted the view. The Villa della Regina, the Queen's Villa, was begun in the early seventeenth century for Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy and later passed to the queens of the House of Savoy. It stands on the hillside above the city, with a baroque garden descending in terraces, a fountain and a nymphaeum, and a vineyard that still produces wine.
Read the complete Villa della Regina write-up.
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Villa della Regina comes up about 82 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 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Ivrea. Next is back through Villa della Regina.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa della Regina write-up.
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back through Villa della Regina, late in the day. Next is Hills of Barbaresco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hills of Barbaresco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hills of Barbaresco. That is the ride.
Hills of Barbaresco → Villa della Regina is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa della Regina → Ivrea is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ivrea → back through Villa della Regina is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa della Regina → Hills of Barbaresco is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.