Why this ride
From Solferino it runs 299 km to Solferino; allow about 4 h 40 of riding. The stops in between: Tombola, Villa Almerico Capra and back through Tombola. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Bande - Corte Carpani and Villa Almerico Capra
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 299 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 40
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Bande - Corte Carpani
Corte Carpani is the kind of place that the name tells you most about. A corte in this part of Lombardy is a farm courtyard, with a farmhouse, barns and outbuildings arranged around a square, and the old estates in the Mantuan hills often kept the names of the families who owned them for a few generations. It sits among the low moraine hills south of Lake Garda, near the villages of Solferino and Cavriana, in a country of vines, maize, cypress rows and brick farm towers.
Read the complete Bande - Corte Carpani write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Bande - Corte Carpani is where the day begins. Next is Tombola.
2. Tombola
In the flat, fertile plain south of Verona, near the town of Cerea, a low rise in the fields called Tombola hides the remains of a Bronze Age settlement. The site is listed among the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it belongs to a group of wetland villages that once stood among the marshes of the Valli Grandi Veronesi, a large area of wetland that was drained and reclaimed over the centuries.
Read the complete Tombola write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Tombola comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Almerico Capra.
3. Villa Almerico Capra
The Villa Almerico Capra, known as La Rotonda, stands on a small hill above Vicenza, and it is one of the most copied buildings in the history of architecture. Andrea Palladio began it in the 1560s for a retired papal official, Paolo Almerico, who wanted a place for entertaining and for looking at the view rather than for farming. The plan is a perfect square, with a round hall under a dome at the centre, and each of the four sides has an identical portico with Ionic columns and a flight of steps, so that the house presents the same face to every direction. The idea was that the building should be an ornament to the landscape, and the landscape an ornament to the house.
Read the complete Villa Almerico Capra write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 145 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Almerico Capra. Next is back through Tombola.
4. back through Tombola
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tombola write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Tombola, late in the day. Next is Bande - Corte Carpani.
5. Bande - Corte Carpani
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bande - Corte Carpani write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Bande - Corte Carpani. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Bande - Corte Carpani to Tombola
Bande - Corte Carpani → Tombola is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tombola to Villa Almerico Capra
Tombola → Villa Almerico Capra is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Almerico Capra to back through Tombola
Villa Almerico Capra → back through Tombola is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tombola to Bande - Corte Carpani
back through Tombola → Bande - Corte Carpani is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.