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 Padova it runs 393 km to Padova; allow about 7 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Foscari, Villa Emo, Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Orto Botanico of Padua was founded in 1545 by the university, which needed a place to grow medicinal plants for the study of medicine, and it is the oldest university botanical garden in the world still in its original location. Its layout has hardly changed in nearly five centuries: a circular wall enclosing a square divided into quarters, with geometric flowerbeds, fountains and gates, a symbolic representation of the world. One of its most famous inhabitants is a palm tree planted in 1585, known as Goethe's palm because the poet studied it during his Italian journey in 1786 and drew from it ideas about the metamorphosis of plants. The garden was listed by UNESCO in 1997, and a modern greenhouse, the Garden of Biodiversity, now sits beside the historic garden, showing plants from different climates around the world.
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Botanical Garden is where the day begins. Next is Villa Foscari.
Locals call it La Malcontenta, the unhappy woman, and the stories about who she was are better than any of them can prove. The legend says a Foscari wife was banished here for her bad behaviour in Venice; the duller truth is that the name probably came from the area or a nearby canal long before the villa existed. Either way, the house Andrea Palladio built for the brothers Nicolò and Alvise Foscari around 1560 is one of his masterpieces, a temple-fronted block raised on a high base above the Brenta canal, looking out over the water like a Roman villa that had wandered down to the lagoon. It forms part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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Villa Foscari comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Emo.
Andrea Palladio built villas for the Venetian nobility as working farms, not just as country houses, and Villa Emo at Fanzolo is perhaps the purest example of that idea. Completed around 1560 for the Emo family, it stands at the centre of a flat, fertile estate, with a long, symmetrical central block flanked by two arcaded wings, the barchesse, which housed the farm buildings, storage and dovecotes. The ramp leading up to the front door was used for threshing grain. Inside, the rooms are decorated with frescoes by Giovanni Battista Zelotti, mythological and allegorical scenes that bring colour and life to the classical architecture. The villa is part of the UNESCO listing of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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about 79 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Emo. 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 Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti.
The Val di San Lucano is a deep, shadowed gash in the southern Dolomites, and the point here lies near Rivamonte and Voltago, in the Agordino, the upper valley of the Cordevole river. The big, pale walls on either side belong to the Pale di San Martino group, one of the nine sets of mountains included in the Dolomites World Heritage listing of 2009, and their sheer rock faces rise more than a thousand metres above the narrow valley floor.
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Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti sits at 175 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 about 261 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Emo.
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about 307 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Emo. Next is back through Villa Foscari.
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Read the complete Villa Foscari write-up.
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back through Villa Foscari, late in the day. Next is Botanical Garden.
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The route ends here after 393 km.
Botanical Garden → Villa Foscari is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Foscari → Villa Emo is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Emo → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti → back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → back through Villa Emo is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Emo → back through Villa Foscari is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Foscari → Botanical Garden is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.