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 123 km round trip from Venaria Reale - roughly 2 h 14 in the saddle. The stops in between: Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Castello di Racconigi and back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Reggia di Venaria Reale write-up.
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Reggia di Venaria Reale is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi write-up.
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Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Castello di Racconigi write-up.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Castello di Racconigi. Next is back through 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 through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, late in the day. Next is Reggia di Venaria Reale.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Reggia di Venaria Reale write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Reggia di Venaria Reale. That is the ride.
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.
Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi → Castello di Racconigi is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Racconigi → back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi → Reggia di Venaria Reale is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.