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 Nizza Monferrato it runs 476 km to Nizza Monferrato; allow about 9 h 16 of riding. It goes by way of Monferrato of the Inferot, VI.1-Emissario, Sacro Monte di Belmonte and Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Nizza Monferrato and Barbera is where the day begins. Next is Monferrato of the Inferot.
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.
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Monferrato of the Inferot comes up about 42 km into the recorded legs. Next is VI.1-Emissario, 50 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.
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about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach VI.1-Emissario. Next is Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
On a granite hill rising above the Canavese plain north of Turin, the Sacro Monte di Belmonte looks out over the foothills toward the Alps. The sanctuary, run by Franciscan friars, has a church and a circuit of chapels representing the stations of the Passion, built in the early eighteenth century on a site that had long been a place of pilgrimage. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy, and the walk around the chapels, under chestnut and oak trees, is calm and shady even in summer.
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Sacro Monte di Belmonte, about halfway. Next is Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine.
Oropa is a sanctuary on a scale that surprises everyone who comes up the valley from Biella for the first time. At almost twelve hundred metres, in a bowl of mountains, a vast complex of churches, courtyards, porticoes and pilgrim lodgings rises in terraces, built over several centuries around an ancient chapel that holds a Black Madonna, a wooden statue of the Virgin that legend attributes to St Luke. Above the main buildings, a Sacro Monte of chapels with life-size statues illustrates the life of Mary along a wooded path. It is one of the nine Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy listed by UNESCO in 2003, and one of the most important Marian shrines in the Alps.
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Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine sits at 203 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
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back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte comes up about 305 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through VI.1-Emissario, 51 km on.
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Read the complete VI.1-Emissario write-up.
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about 350 km into the recorded legs you reach back through VI.1-Emissario. Next is back through Monferrato of the Inferot.
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Read the complete Monferrato of the Inferot write-up.
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back through Monferrato of the Inferot, late in the day. Next is Nizza Monferrato and Barbera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nizza Monferrato and Barbera write-up.
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The route ends here after 476 km.
Nizza Monferrato and Barbera → Monferrato of the Inferot is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 di Belmonte is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di Belmonte → Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine → back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte → back through VI.1-Emissario is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through VI.1-Emissario → back through Monferrato of the Inferot is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Monferrato of the Inferot → Nizza Monferrato and Barbera is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.