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 Frassinello Monferrato it runs 317 km to Frassinello Monferrato; allow about 5 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: VI.1-Emissario, Sacro Monte o “Nuova Gerusalemme” di Varal and back through VI.1-Emissario. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 VI.1-Emissario, 66 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 comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sacro Monte o “Nuova Gerusalemme” di Varal.
Varallo is a small town at the point where the Valsesia stops being a wide valley and starts becoming a mountain one, and above it, on a rocky spur reached by a winding road or a short cable car, is the oldest and most ambitious of the Sacri Monti. In 1491 a Franciscan friar called Bernardino Caimi, back from the Holy Land, set out to recreate Jerusalem here for pilgrims who could never make the journey. The result is a hilltop village of more than forty chapels filled with life-size painted terracotta and wooden figures, hundreds of them, telling the life of Christ like a frozen theatre. Gaudenzio Ferrari, the great Renaissance painter of this valley, worked on many of them.
Read the complete Sacro Monte o “Nuova Gerusalemme” di Varal write-up.
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about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte o “Nuova Gerusalemme” di Varal. Next is back through VI.1-Emissario, 66 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete VI.1-Emissario write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through VI.1-Emissario, 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.
Back at Monferrato of the Inferot. That is the ride.
Monferrato of the Inferot → VI.1-Emissario is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
VI.1-Emissario → Sacro Monte o “Nuova Gerusalemme” di Varal is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte o “Nuova Gerusalemme” di Varal → back through VI.1-Emissario is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through VI.1-Emissario → Monferrato of the Inferot is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.