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 274 km round trip from Verona - roughly 3 h 30 in the saddle. The stops in between: City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o, Villa Badoer and back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o. The line favours views over speed.
Verona is where the north of Italy starts to feel like the south, and where history piles up in layers so thick that you trip over them. The Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, still dominates Piazza Bra and still hosts opera in summer, with tens of thousands of people sitting on stone steps two thousand years old. The Adige river swings through town in a double bend, crossed by bridges including the Ponte Pietra, part Roman and rebuilt after the Germans blew it up in 1945. And of course there is Juliet's balcony, which was added to a medieval house in the twentieth century to satisfy visitors searching for the Shakespeare story; people queue to rub the breast of her bronze statue for luck.
Read the complete City of Verona write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
City of Verona is where the day begins. Next is City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o.
Andrea Palladio was a stonemason from Padua who became the most copied architect in history, and Vicenza is where he did it. Walk the main street, Corso Palladio, and you are moving through his workshop: palace after palace designed for the local nobility in the sixteenth century, with columns, pediments and proportions that ended up on English country houses, American plantation homes and Washington government buildings. The city and the villas scattered across the surrounding countryside were listed together by UNESCO for exactly that reason.
Read the complete City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Badoer.
Fratta Polesine is a quiet village in the Polesine, the flat, fertile land between the Adige and the Po in the south of the Veneto, and its pride is a villa by Andrea Palladio. Villa Badoer, built in the 1550s for Francesco Badoer, a Venetian nobleman, stands on a raised platform above the surrounding fields, with a temple-front portico, curved colonnades sweeping out on either side to farm buildings, and a grand staircase. It was the first of Palladio's villas to use the curved barchesse, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. Inside, the walls carry frescoes, and the villa houses a museum about the Polesine and its history.
Read the complete Villa Badoer write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Badoer. Next is back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o, late in the day. Next is City of Verona.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete City of Verona write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at City of Verona. That is the ride.
City of Verona → City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o → Villa Badoer is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Villa Badoer → back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o → City of Verona is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.