CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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397 km from Venice to Venice, about 4 h 59 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Thiene, Villa Valmarana Zen, Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
You cannot ride a motorbike in Venice, and that is the best thing about it. The city is built on over a hundred small islands in a shallow lagoon, linked by about four hundred bridges, and there are no roads, only canals and narrow lanes. Cars and bikes stop at Piazzale Roma or at the parking islands, and everything else moves on foot or by water. So the ride begins on the mainland, at Mestre or Tronchetto, with the bike left in a guarded garage and a vaporetto to carry you in.
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Venice is where the day begins. Next is Villa Thiene.
Quinto Vicentino is a quiet farming town on the flat plain just north-east of Vicenza, and its town hall happens to be a villa by Andrea Palladio. Villa Thiene was commissioned in the sixteenth century by the brothers Marcantonio and Adriano Thiene, members of one of the most powerful families in Vicenza, and Palladio drew up a grand design for it with courtyards and wings that would have spread across the fields. Only part of that plan was ever built. What stands today is a solid, rather austere block, and the council offices are inside it, which gives the place a pleasingly everyday feeling.
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Villa Thiene comes up 41 km in. Next is Villa Valmarana Zen.
Not every Palladian villa sits on a hill with a view. Villa Valmarana at Lisiera lies on the flat Vicentine plain east of the city, among fields of maize and soy, irrigation ditches and poplar rows, and it was built for a family whose wealth came from the land itself. Palladio designed it in the middle of the sixteenth century, and it belongs to the family of villas around Vicenza that UNESCO lists together with his town palaces. The house follows his idea of a working farm dressed as a Roman temple: a central block with a portico, flanked by long service wings, the barchesse, that once held grain, tools and animals.
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82 km in you reach Villa Valmarana Zen. Next is Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
These are not soft, rolling wine hills. Between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, the foothills of the Pre-Alps rise in steep hogback ridges, sharp crests of rock running east to west, with vines clinging to slopes so steep that much of the work is still done by hand. Grass-covered terraces called ciglioni hold the soil in place, and the result is a patchwork of vines, woods and small villages that UNESCO listed in 2019.
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Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va, about halfway. Next is Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
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Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va sits at 163 km, about halfway. Next is back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
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back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va comes up 204 km in. Next is back through Villa Valmarana Zen.
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245 km in you reach back through Villa Valmarana Zen. Next is back through Villa Thiene.
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back through Villa Thiene, late in the day. Next is Venice.
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The route ends here after 397 km.
Venice → Villa Thiene is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Villa Valmarana Zen → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → back through Villa Valmarana Zen is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Villa Thiene → Venice is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.