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 291 km round trip from Cuorgnè - roughly 5 h 19 in the saddle. On the way it passes 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 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 76 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 comes up about 80 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.
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about 144 km into the recorded legs you reach Grinzane Cavour Castle. Next is back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, 75 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 Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sacro Monte di Belmonte write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sacro Monte di Belmonte. That is the ride.
Sacro Monte di Belmonte → Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 80 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 65 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 → Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.