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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127 km from Beinasco to Beinasco, about 2 h 40 of riding. On the way it passes Reggia di Venaria Reale, Sacro Monte di Belmonte and back through Reggia di Venaria Reale. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Reggia di Venaria Reale.
The Reggia di Venaria Reale lies ten kilometres north-west of the centre of Turin, at the edge of the Piedmontese plain, with the white wall of the Alps visible on a clear day behind the Lanzo valleys. The Savoy dukes built it as a hunting lodge, and it grew into one of the largest palaces in Europe, now at the centre of a town of thirty-three thousand people that carries its name.
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Reggia di Venaria Reale comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte di Belmonte. Next is back through Reggia di Venaria Reale.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Reggia di Venaria Reale write-up.
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back through Reggia di Venaria Reale, late in the day. Next is Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi. That is the ride.
Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi → Reggia di Venaria Reale is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Reggia di Venaria Reale → Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di Belmonte → back through Reggia di Venaria Reale is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Reggia di Venaria Reale → Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.