In this paper, we study the geometry of GT-varieties $$X_{d}$$
X
d
with group a finite cyclic group $$\Gamma \subset {{\,\mathrm{GL}\,}}(n+1,\mathbb {K})$$
Γ
⊂
GL
(
n
+
1
,
K
)
of order d. We prove that the homogeneous ideal $${{\,\mathrm{I}\,}}(X_{d})$$
I
(
X
d
)
of $$X_{d}$$
X
d
is generated by binomials of degree at most 3 and we provide examples reaching this bound. We give a combinatorial description of the canonical module of the homogeneous coordinate ring of $$X_{d}$$
X
d
and we show that it is generated by monomial invariants of $$\Gamma $$
Γ
of degree d and 2d. This allows us to characterize the Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity of the homogeneous coordinate ring of $$X_d$$
X
d
. Finally, we compute the cohomology table of the normal bundle of the so-called RL-varieties. They are projections of the Veronese variety $$\nu _{d}(\mathbb {P}^{n}) \subset \mathbb {P}^{\left( {\begin{array}{c}n+d\\ n\end{array}}\right) -1}$$
ν
d
(
P
n
)
⊂
P
n
+
d
n
-
1
which naturally arise from level GT-varieties.