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 Venaria Reale it runs 423 km to Venaria Reale; allow about 8 h 11 of riding. It goes by way of Sacro Monte di Belmonte, VI.1-Emissario, Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun and Nizza Monferrato and Barbera. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is VI.1-Emissario, 44 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 84 km into the recorded legs you reach VI.1-Emissario. Next is Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 44 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.
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Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, about halfway. Next is Nizza Monferrato and Barbera.
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 sits at 177 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 44 km on.
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back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun comes up about 262 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through VI.1-Emissario, 44 km on.
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about 341 km into the recorded legs you reach back through VI.1-Emissario. Next is back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
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back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte, late in the day. Next is Reggia di Venaria Reale.
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Read the complete Reggia di Venaria Reale write-up.
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The route ends here after 423 km.
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 → VI.1-Emissario is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
VI.1-Emissario → Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun → Nizza Monferrato and Barbera is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nizza Monferrato and Barbera → back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun → back through VI.1-Emissario is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through VI.1-Emissario → back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte → Reggia di Venaria Reale is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.