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 Viverone it runs 388 km to Viverone; allow about 7 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Sacro Monte di Belmonte, Reggia di Venaria Reale, Castello di Racconigi and Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 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 Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
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 comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Reggia di Venaria Reale.
The Reggia di Venaria Reale lies ten kilometres north-west of the centre of Turin, at the edge of the Piedmontese plain, with the white wall of the Alps visible on a clear day behind the Lanzo valleys. The Savoy dukes built it as a hunting lodge, and it grew into one of the largest palaces in Europe, now at the centre of a town of thirty-three thousand people that carries its name.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Reggia di Venaria Reale. Next is Castello di Racconigi.
Racconigi is a small town on the plain south of Turin, in Piedmont, surrounded by fields of maize and rice and lines of poplars. It is dominated by its castle, a grand residence of the House of Savoy, which ruled Piedmont and later Italy. Originally a medieval fortress, it was transformed over the centuries into a palace, with Baroque and neoclassical façades, and surrounded by a vast park with lakes, woods and a farm. The castle is part of the UNESCO-listed Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, inscribed in 1997.
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Castello di Racconigi, about halfway. Next is Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe.
Barolo the village has a few hundred inhabitants and a castle; Barolo the wine has a worldwide reputation built on the Nebbiolo grape and on the peculiar soils and slopes of these hills south of Alba. Around the village, the Langhe rise in steep ridges striped with vineyards, each hill crowned with a village, a castle or a church tower: La Morra, Monforte d'Alba, Serralunga, Castiglione Falletto, Novello. In 2014 UNESCO listed the vineyard landscapes of the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato for the way centuries of winemaking have shaped every slope, every row, every cellar.
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Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe sits at 171 km, about halfway. Next is back through Castello di Racconigi.
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Read the complete Castello di Racconigi write-up.
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back through Castello di Racconigi comes up about 245 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Reggia di Venaria Reale.
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Read the complete Reggia di Venaria Reale write-up.
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about 305 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Reggia di Venaria Reale. Next is back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte.
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Read the complete Sacro Monte di Belmonte write-up.
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back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte, late in the day. Next is VI.1-Emissario, 43 km on.
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Read the complete VI.1-Emissario write-up.
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The route ends here after 388 km.
VI.1-Emissario → Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di Belmonte → Reggia di Venaria Reale is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Reggia di Venaria Reale → Castello di Racconigi is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Racconigi → Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe → back through Castello di Racconigi is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Racconigi → back through Reggia di Venaria Reale is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Reggia di Venaria Reale → back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sacro Monte di Belmonte → VI.1-Emissario is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.