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 328 km round trip from Frassinello Monferrato - roughly 5 h 57 in the saddle. The stops in between: Nizza Monferrato and Barbera, Grinzane Cavour Castle, Castello di Racconigi and Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 40 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The low hills of the Monferrato, in Piedmont, roll between the Po to the north and the Tanaro to the south, and the Inferot label points at the part of them near Cella Monte, Rosignano and Frassinello, ten kilometres from Casale Monferrato. This is soft country, sandstone ridges clothed in vines, with brick villages on the crests and fog in the valleys on autumn mornings.
Read the complete Monferrato of the Inferot write-up.
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Monferrato of the Inferot is where the day begins. Next is Nizza Monferrato and Barbera.
Barbera is the everyday red of Piedmont, the wine on every trattoria table, and around Nizza Monferrato it has been raised to something more serious. The hills between Nizza, Vinchio, Castelnuovo Calcea and Mombercelli are covered in vines, planted in rows that follow the contours of the slopes, and the best wines from this area carry their own designation, Nizza DOCG, made from barbera alone. The vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato were listed by UNESCO in 2014, and this corner of the Asti hills is a fine example of what that means: a working landscape shaped by centuries of farming, with hilltop villages, brick churches, and small family wineries at the end of gravel tracks.
Read the complete Nizza Monferrato and Barbera write-up.
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Nizza Monferrato and Barbera comes up about 42 km into the recorded legs. Next is Grinzane Cavour Castle.
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the man who more or less engineered the unification of Italy, spent years as mayor of this little Langhe village before he went on to bigger things, and the square brick castle on its knoll still carries his name. He experimented with winemaking here too, at a time when Barolo was still finding its modern form, so the building sits at a neat crossroads of Piedmontese politics and Piedmontese wine.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Grinzane Cavour Castle. 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 152 km, about halfway. Next is back through Castello di Racconigi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Racconigi write-up.
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back through Castello di Racconigi comes up about 196 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Grinzane Cavour Castle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grinzane Cavour Castle write-up.
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about 241 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Grinzane Cavour Castle. Next is back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nizza Monferrato and Barbera write-up.
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back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera, late in the day. Next is Monferrato of the Inferot.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monferrato of the Inferot write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 328 km.
Monferrato of the Inferot → Nizza Monferrato and Barbera is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nizza Monferrato and Barbera → Grinzane Cavour Castle is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grinzane Cavour Castle → Castello di Racconigi is 45 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 Grinzane Cavour Castle is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grinzane Cavour Castle → back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera → Monferrato of the Inferot is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.