The House of the Winds – Villa Crespi, Orta San Giulio loop from Portula

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The House of the Winds – Villa Crespi, Orta San Giulio loop from Portula

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The House of the Winds – Villa Crespi, Orta San Giulio loop from Portula

07:28

113km

1,640m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 23, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 52.1 km for 79 m

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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6.15 km

Fabbrica della Ruota

Highlight • Historical Site

The wool mill was built by the Zignone brothers in 1878, in the Vallefredda area, a short distance from the confluence of the Scoldo stream with the Ponzone torrent and …

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29.5 km

Tradition attributes it to Antonelli who built the villa for his sister but there is no documented evidence. Three superimposed octagonal rooms with flat roof. Stairwell and service rooms also octagonal. Garden with fountain, well and icebox.

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29.8 km

Sanctuary of the Crucifix of Boca

Highlight • Religious Site

A truly spectacular Sanctuaries to see, nice place to take pictures.

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42.2 km

Former Railway Line Bike Path

Highlight • Cycleway

45.0 km

View of Lake Orta from Gozzano

Highlight • Viewpoint

If you want to ride uphill in a short and crisp manner, this is the right place!

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49.0 km

Villa Crespi, Orta San Giulio

Highlight • Historical Site

Villa Crespi in Orta San Giulio (Piedmont) is a Moorish-style residence established in 1879 as the country estate of the Italian cotton industrialist Cristoforo Benigno Crespi.

The building, which can …

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52.1 km

Lake Orta

Lake

70.7 km

Chiesa Madonna Assunta and View of Lake Orta

Highlight • Religious Site

Church of the Madonna dell'Assunta in Arola with a non-original giant bench from the Big Bench series by the American designer Chris Bangle together with his wife Catherine, however, apart …

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75.8 km

Passo della Colma / Colma di Civiasco

Mountain Pass

89.8 km

Church of Sant'Antonio Abate and Statue of the Girl with the Broom, Quarona

Highlight • Religious Site

The parish church of Sant'Antonio Abate in Quarona (VC), consecrated in 1667, is a seventeenth-century building with a single nave and a five-light pronaos on Corso P. Rolandi

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113 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

88.0 km

14.8 km

6.49 km

2.18 km

1.09 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

104 km

6.59 km

978 m

529 m

317 m

115 m

Elevation

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Highest point (930 m)

Lowest point (290 m)

Weather

Tuesday 20 October

15°C

9°C

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Comments

July 29, 2026,Prova singola di inseguimento … @Fabbro (🚀🚀🚀 lui)

With @Fabbro

Up to Colma, Civiasco side > Arola, and along the east lakeside road, damn, I limited the engine revs, his, the boy's.

I'll tell you here too, badly paraphrasing, "repetita juvant": repetitions 🚴‍♂️ help, got it F.? 😀.

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