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 Turin it runs 103 km to Turin; allow about 2 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria, Sacro Monte di Belmonte and back through Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. 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.
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Villa della Regina is where the day begins. Next is Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria.
The Parco La Mandria, north-west of Turin, is the largest remnant of the royal hunting estates of the House of Savoy, and the Borgo Castello at its centre was once the heart of the estate. The word mandria means a herd, and the park began as a stud and breeding farm for horses and cattle on the plain, with the woods kept for the hunt. Today the park is a protected area of about three thousand hectares, surrounded by a wall, where visitors walk or cycle between oaks, hornbeams and meadows, and where deer and wild boar still live.
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Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacro Monte di Belmonte. Next is back through Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria write-up.
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back through Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria, late in the day. 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.
Back at Villa della Regina. That is the ride.
Villa della Regina → Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria → Sacro Monte di Belmonte is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte di Belmonte → back through Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borgo castello nel parco della Mandria → Villa della Regina is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.