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 Pallanza-Intra-Suna it runs 425 km to Pallanza-Intra-Suna; allow about 6 h 35 of riding. It goes by way of Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine, Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria and back through Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità write-up.
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Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità is where the day begins. Next is Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine.
Oropa is a sanctuary on a scale that surprises everyone who comes up the valley from Biella for the first time. At almost twelve hundred metres, in a bowl of mountains, a vast complex of churches, courtyards, porticoes and pilgrim lodgings rises in terraces, built over several centuries around an ancient chapel that holds a Black Madonna, a wooden statue of the Virgin that legend attributes to St Luke. Above the main buildings, a Sacro Monte of chapels with life-size statues illustrates the life of Mary along a wooded path. It is one of the nine Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy listed by UNESCO in 2003, and one of the most important Marian shrines in the Alps.
Read the complete Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine write-up.
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Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine comes up about 114 km into the recorded legs. Next is Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria.
The Parco La Mandria, north-west of Turin, is the largest remnant of the royal hunting estates of the House of Savoy, and the Borgo Castello at its centre was once the heart of the estate. The word mandria means a herd, and the park began as a stud and breeding farm for horses and cattle on the plain, with the woods kept for the hunt. Today the park is a protected area of about three thousand hectares, surrounded by a wall, where visitors walk or cycle between oaks, hornbeams and meadows, and where deer and wild boar still live.
Read the complete Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria write-up.
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about 217 km into the recorded legs you reach Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria. Next is back through Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine, late in the day. Next is Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità, 83 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità. That is the ride.
Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità → Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine → Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria → back through Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine → Sacro Monte della SS.Trinità is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.