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 226 km to Turin; allow about 4 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Castello di Agliè, VI.1-Emissario, Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine and back through VI.1-Emissario. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Castello di Agliè comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is VI.1-Emissario, 34 km on.
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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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach VI.1-Emissario. Next is Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine.
Oropa is a sanctuary on a scale that surprises everyone who comes up the valley from Biella for the first time. At almost twelve hundred metres, in a bowl of mountains, a vast complex of churches, courtyards, porticoes and pilgrim lodgings rises in terraces, built over several centuries around an ancient chapel that holds a Black Madonna, a wooden statue of the Virgin that legend attributes to St Luke. Above the main buildings, a Sacro Monte of chapels with life-size statues illustrates the life of Mary along a wooded path. It is one of the nine Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy listed by UNESCO in 2003, and one of the most important Marian shrines in the Alps.
Read the complete Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine write-up.
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Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine, about halfway. Next is back through VI.1-Emissario, 35 km on.
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Read the complete VI.1-Emissario write-up.
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back through VI.1-Emissario sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Castello di Agliè.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castello di Agliè write-up.
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back through Castello di Agliè comes up about 187 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zona di Commando.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zona di Commando write-up.
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Zona di Commando closes the day.
Zona di Commando → Castello di Agliè is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castello di Agliè → VI.1-Emissario is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
VI.1-Emissario → Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacro Monte della Beata Vergine → back through VI.1-Emissario is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through VI.1-Emissario → back through Castello di Agliè is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castello di Agliè → Zona di Commando is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.