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 Turin it runs 148 km to Turin; allow about 3 h 02 of riding. The stops in between: Castello di Rivoli, Sacro Monte di Belmonte and back through Castello di Rivoli. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Turin was Italy's first capital, and the Palazzo Madama in the middle of Piazza Castello was its first parliament. When the kingdom was proclaimed in 1861, the Senate met in a room inside this strange building, a medieval castle with a baroque facade added in the early eighteenth century by the architect Filippo Juvarra. The name comes from the royal widows, the Madama Reali, who lived here in the seventeenth century, among them Christine of France. Today it houses the city's museum of ancient art, and the staircase and facade are among the most beautiful in Italy. The whole ensemble of Savoy residences in and around Turin is listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Palazzo Madama write-up.
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Palazzo Madama is where the day begins. Next is Castello di Rivoli.
Rivoli stands on a ridge at the mouth of the Susa valley, where the Alps give way to the plain of Turin, and the Savoy dukes liked it for exactly that reason: from the castle terrace, you can see the city to the east and the wall of mountains to the west. A fortress stood here in the Middle Ages, and in the eighteenth century the architect Filippo Juvarra began to rebuild it as a grand residence for Victor Amadeus II. The duke, who had become King of Sardinia, ended his days here in 1732, reportedly confined by his own son, and the great project was never finished.
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Castello di Rivoli comes up about 20 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 76 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte di Belmonte. Next is back through Castello di Rivoli.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Rivoli write-up.
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back through Castello di Rivoli, late in the day. Next is Palazzo Madama.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palazzo Madama write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Palazzo Madama. That is the ride.
Palazzo Madama → Castello di Rivoli is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Rivoli → Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di Belmonte → back through Castello di Rivoli is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Rivoli → Palazzo Madama is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.