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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87 km from Vicenza to Vicenza, about 1 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Vicenza is Palladio's town, and almost everything worth seeing is a version of one man's idea of what a building should be. Andrea Palladio, born in Padua and trained as a stonemason, designed palaces, villas and churches in and around Vicenza in the sixteenth century, and his work, with its Roman columns, pediments and strict proportions, shaped architecture across the world, from English country houses to the White House. The city and the villas in its surrounding countryside are together a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a walk down Corso Palladio feels like a stroll through an architectural textbook.
Read the complete City of Vicenza write-up.
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City of Vicenza is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Villa Forni Cerato write-up.
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Villa Forni Cerato comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Villa Angarano write-up.
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about 42 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Angarano. 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, late in the day. Next is City of Vicenza.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete City of Vicenza write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at City of Vicenza. That is the ride.
City of Vicenza → Villa Forni Cerato is 15 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 → City of Vicenza is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.