Why this ride
71 km from Viverone to Viverone, about 1 h 35 of riding. It goes by way of Ivrea, Castello di Agliè and back through Ivrea. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
VI.1-Emissario and Castello di Agliè
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 71 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 35
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. VI.1-Emissario
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.
Read the complete VI.1-Emissario write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
VI.1-Emissario is where the day begins. Next is Ivrea.
2. Ivrea
Ivrea is the town Olivetti built, or at least rebuilt. In the twentieth century the Olivetti company, famous for typewriters, calculators and some of the first personal computers, turned this small Piedmontese town into a showcase of what industry could be: factories with glass walls and natural light, worker housing, libraries, nurseries and social services designed by the best architects of the day. Adriano Olivetti believed a company should serve its community, and the result was listed by UNESCO in 2018 as an industrial city of the twentieth century. Walk along Corso Jervis and you can see the buildings still standing, some reused, some waiting.
Read the complete Ivrea write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Ivrea comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Castello di Agliè.
3. Castello di Agliè
Agliè is a small town in the Canavese, the hilly district north of Turin that spreads between the Po plain and the mouths of the Alpine valleys, and its castle is far grander than the town around it. Begun as a medieval fortress by the San Martino counts, it was transformed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries into a baroque residence and later bought by the House of Savoy, who turned it into a summer palace with richly decorated rooms, a chapel, a theatre and a large park with fountains and a lake. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, a ring of palaces around Turin, and Italian television viewers may recognise it from a popular costume drama filmed there.
Read the complete Castello di Agliè write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 35 km into the recorded legs you reach Castello di Agliè. Next is back through Ivrea.
4. back through Ivrea
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ivrea write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Ivrea, late in the day. Next is VI.1-Emissario, 17 km on.
5. VI.1-Emissario
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete VI.1-Emissario write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at VI.1-Emissario. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
VI.1-Emissario to Ivrea
VI.1-Emissario → Ivrea is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ivrea to Castello di Agliè
Ivrea → Castello di Agliè is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Agliè to back through Ivrea
Castello di Agliè → back through Ivrea is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ivrea to VI.1-Emissario
back through Ivrea → VI.1-Emissario is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.