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 304 km round trip from Cuorgnè - roughly 5 h 52 in the saddle. On the way it passes Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun, Zona di Commando 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. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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, 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.
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Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zona di Commando.
Turin is the city that made the Savoy dynasty into the kings of Italy, and the area known as the Zona di Comando, the Command Zone, is the heart of that story. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the dukes of Savoy, who had moved their capital to Turin in 1563, laid out a grand ensemble of palaces, courtyards and arcades around the old castle, turning a provincial town into a stage for royal power. Piazza Castello is the centre, with the Palazzo Madama, a medieval castle with a baroque facade, and the Palazzo Reale, the royal palace, with its gardens and the Royal Armoury. It is part of the UNESCO group of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, listed in 1997.
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about 152 km into the recorded legs you reach Zona di Commando. 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 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 → Zona di Commando is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zona di Commando → back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sacro Monte di S.Maria Assunta di Serralun → Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.