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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A 170 km round trip from Padova - roughly 3 h 00 in the saddle. On the way it passes Villa Chiericati, Villa Forni Cerato, Villa Angarano and back through Villa Forni Cerato. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Chiericati.
Villa Chiericati stands in the flat countryside east of Vicenza, at Vancimuglio near Grumolo delle Abbadesse, a cube of pale plaster with a deep, columned portico that looks as if a Roman temple has been grafted onto a farmhouse. That is precisely what Palladio intended. Designed in the 1550s for Giovanni Chiericati, it is often cited as one of the first villas in which he gave the main façade a full temple front, an idea he would repeat, refine and make famous, and which architects copied for centuries afterwards, from English country houses to the American South. Like the other Palladian villas of the Veneto, it is part of the UNESCO site that includes the city of Vicenza.
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Villa Chiericati comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Forni Cerato.
Not every Palladian villa is a palace. Villa Forni Cerato, in Montecchio Precalcino north of Vicenza, is a small, modest building, a cube with a simple loggia and pediment, built in the mid-sixteenth century for Girolamo Forni, a timber merchant and amateur painter. Its attribution to Palladio has been debated, but it is included in the UNESCO-listed City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and its compact harmony shows how Palladio's ideas worked even at a small scale. It is privately owned and not always open, so check before planning a visit.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Forni Cerato. Next is Villa Angarano.
Bassano del Grappa sits where the river Brenta leaves the mountains and spreads onto the Venetian plain, and its symbol is a covered wooden bridge, the Ponte Vecchio, designed by Palladio in the sixteenth century and rebuilt several times since after floods and wars. On the right bank of the river, just outside the town, stands Villa Angarano, a country house whose two long colonnaded wings were designed by Palladio, while the central residence was built later, in a different style, by the Venetian architect Baldassare Longhena. The villa is still a working wine estate and belongs to the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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Villa Angarano, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Forni Cerato.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Forni Cerato write-up.
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back through Villa Forni Cerato sits at 106 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Chiericati.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Chiericati write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Villa Chiericati comes up about 140 km into the recorded legs. Next is Botanical Garden.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Botanical Garden write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Botanical Garden closes the day.
Botanical Garden → Villa Chiericati is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Chiericati → Villa Forni Cerato is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Forni Cerato → Villa Angarano is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → back through Villa Forni Cerato is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Forni Cerato → back through Villa Chiericati is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Chiericati → Botanical Garden is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.