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 Domodossola it runs 292 km to Domodossola; allow about 4 h 45 of riding. On the way it passes Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità, Sacro Monte del Rosario di Varese and back through Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Domodossola's holy mountain rises immediately above the town, on the wooded Mattarella hill, and the walk or ride up gives you the whole Ossola valley at your feet. The Sacro Monte Calvario was begun in the seventeenth century as a devotional path of chapels depicting the Passion of Christ, each holding painted and sculpted scenes, leading up to a sanctuary church at the top. It is one of the nine Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy inscribed together on the UNESCO list, and it has a particular link with Antonio Rosmini, the philosopher-priest who founded his religious institute here in the nineteenth century.
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Sacro Monte Calvario is where the day begins. Next is Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità, 32 km on.
High above the western shore of Lake Maggiore, in a forest of chestnut and beech above the village of Ghiffa, a small sanctuary dedicated to the Holy Trinity looks out over the water to the hills of Lombardy. The Sacro Monte of Ghiffa began in the seventeenth century as a series of chapels along a path, each meant to illustrate a scene from sacred history for pilgrims, but it was never completed as planned. It is the smallest of the nine Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy listed by UNESCO in 2003, and its charm lies in its intimacy and its setting: a few chapels, a porticoed walkway and a church in the woods, with the lake shining below.
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Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sacro Monte del Rosario di Varese.
Above Varese, on the flank of the Campo dei Fiori, a cobbled path climbs two kilometres or so through woods and past fourteen chapels to a medieval sanctuary and the tiny village of Santa Maria del Monte. Each chapel contains a life-size scene of the mysteries of the Rosary, with painted terracotta figures and frescoed backgrounds, and the whole ensemble, built in the seventeenth century under the architect Giuseppe Bernascone, is one of the nine Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2003.
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about 146 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte del Rosario di Varese. Next is back through Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità, 32 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità write-up.
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back through Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità, late in the day. Next is Sacro Monte Calvario.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sacro Monte Calvario write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sacro Monte Calvario. That is the ride.
Sacro Monte Calvario → Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità → Sacro Monte del Rosario di Varese is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte del Rosario di Varese → back through Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità → Sacro Monte Calvario is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.