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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From Ivrea it runs 239 km to Ivrea; allow about 3 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of Zona di Commando, Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun and back through Zona di Commando. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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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Ivrea is where the day begins. Next is Zona di Commando.
Turin is the city that made the Savoy dynasty into the kings of Italy, and the area known as the Zona di Comando, the Command Zone, is the heart of that story. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the dukes of Savoy, who had moved their capital to Turin in 1563, laid out a grand ensemble of palaces, courtyards and arcades around the old castle, turning a provincial town into a stage for royal power. Piazza Castello is the centre, with the Palazzo Madama, a medieval castle with a baroque facade, and the Palazzo Reale, the royal palace, with its gardens and the Royal Armoury. It is part of the UNESCO group of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, listed in 1997.
Read the complete Zona di Commando write-up.
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Zona di Commando comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 61 km on.
On a wooded hill above the vineyards of the Monferrato, between Casale and Asti, stands the Sacro Monte di Crea, one of the nine Sacred Mountains of Piedmont and Lombardy that are listed together as a World Heritage Site. The sanctuary of Santa Maria Assunta, a pilgrimage church, sits on the slope, and above it a path climbs through the woods past a series of chapels, each with terracotta statues and painted scenes from the life of the Virgin, to the Chapel of Paradise at the summit, with a crowd of figures depicting her coronation.
Read the complete Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun write-up.
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about 116 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun. Next is back through Zona di Commando.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zona di Commando write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zona di Commando, late in the day. Next is Ivrea.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ivrea write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ivrea. That is the ride.
Ivrea → Zona di Commando is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zona di Commando → Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun → back through Zona di Commando is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zona di Commando → Ivrea is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.