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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245 km from Viverone to Viverone, about 3 h 46 of riding. On the way it passes Zona di Commando, Castello di Pollenzo and back through Zona di Commando. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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VI.1-Emissario is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Zona di Commando write-up.
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Zona di Commando comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Castello di Pollenzo.
The village of Pollenzo was a Roman town, Pollentia, long before it was a Savoy estate, and in 402 a Roman army under Stilicho fought Alaric's Visigoths nearby in one of the last great battles of the Western Empire. Today the name means food. The castle and the neo-Gothic agricultural complex built around it by King Carlo Alberto in the nineteenth century, the Agenzia, now house the University of Gastronomic Sciences, founded by the Slow Food movement, which was born in nearby Bra. The estate is part of the UNESCO-listed Residences of the Royal House of Savoy.
Read the complete Castello di Pollenzo write-up.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Castello di Pollenzo. Next is back through Zona di Commando.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zona di Commando write-up.
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back through Zona di Commando, late in the day. Next is VI.1-Emissario, 63 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete VI.1-Emissario write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at VI.1-Emissario. That is the ride.
VI.1-Emissario → Zona di Commando is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zona di Commando → Castello di Pollenzo is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Pollenzo → back through Zona di Commando is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zona di Commando → VI.1-Emissario is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.