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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216 km from Turin to Turin, about 4 h 03 of riding. The stops in between: Castello di Racconigi, Castello di Pollenzo, Canelli and Asti Spumante and back through Castello di Pollenzo. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Turin looks up at its hills, and on the slope above the Po stands a villa built for those who wanted the view. The Villa della Regina, the Queen's Villa, was begun in the early seventeenth century for Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy and later passed to the queens of the House of Savoy. It stands on the hillside above the city, with a baroque garden descending in terraces, a fountain and a nymphaeum, and a vineyard that still produces wine.
Read the complete Villa della Regina write-up.
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Villa della Regina is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Castello di Racconigi write-up.
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Castello di Racconigi comes up about 40 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 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Castello di Pollenzo. Next is Canelli and Asti Spumante.
Under the streets of Canelli runs a second town, made of brick tunnels and vaulted galleries cut into the hillside, where for well over a century sparkling wine has rested in the cool and the dark. The locals call them the underground cathedrals, and they are the reason this small Piedmontese town is part of the UNESCO listing of the vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato. Canelli was one of the places where Italian sparkling wine was pioneered in the nineteenth century, using the local Moscato grape, and the town's big wine houses still welcome visitors into their cellars by appointment.
Read the complete Canelli and Asti Spumante write-up.
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Canelli and Asti Spumante, about halfway. Next is back through Castello di Pollenzo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Pollenzo write-up.
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back through Castello di Pollenzo sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Castello di Racconigi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Racconigi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Castello di Racconigi comes up about 175 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa della Regina.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa della Regina write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Villa della Regina closes the day.
Villa della Regina → Castello di Racconigi is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Racconigi → Castello di Pollenzo is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Pollenzo → Canelli and Asti Spumante is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Canelli and Asti Spumante → back through Castello di Pollenzo is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Pollenzo → back through Castello di Racconigi is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Racconigi → Villa della Regina is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.