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 272 km round trip from Venaria Reale - roughly 4 h 33 in the saddle. The stops in between: Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, Grinzane Cavour Castle and back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 73 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 71 km on.
On a wooded hill above the vineyards of the Monferrato, between Casale and Asti, stands the Sacro Monte di Crea, one of the nine Sacred Mountains of Piedmont and Lombardy that are listed together as a World Heritage Site. The sanctuary of Santa Maria Assunta, a pilgrimage church, sits on the slope, and above it a path climbs through the woods past a series of chapels, each with terracotta statues and painted scenes from the life of the Virgin, to the Chapel of Paradise at the summit, with a crowd of figures depicting her coronation.
Read the complete Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun write-up.
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Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Grinzane Cavour Castle.
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the man who more or less engineered the unification of Italy, spent years as mayor of this little Langhe village before he went on to bigger things, and the square brick castle on its knoll still carries his name. He experimented with winemaking here too, at a time when Barolo was still finding its modern form, so the building sits at a neat crossroads of Piedmontese politics and Piedmontese wine.
Read the complete Grinzane Cavour Castle write-up.
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about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Grinzane Cavour Castle. Next is back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 71 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 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 → Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun → Grinzane Cavour Castle is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Grinzane Cavour Castle → back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun → Reggia di Venaria Reale is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.