CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Vigarano Pieve it runs 420 km to Vigarano Pieve; allow about 6 h 38 of riding. The stops in between: Villa Pisani, Villa Chiericati, Villa Godi Malinverni and Villa Barbaro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Este dukes of Ferrara loved their countryside retreats, the delizie, and they scattered them across the flat land around the city like jewels on a cloth. The Diamantina, near Vigarano Pieve west of Ferrara, was one of them, an estate of farmland, woods and buildings named after the diamond, a symbol of the Este family. The delizie are part of the UNESCO listing of Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta, which recognises the city's planned urban layout and the way the Este shaped the surrounding landscape, draining marshes and creating farms and hunting grounds.
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Diamantina is where the day begins. Next is Villa Pisani.
Montagnana is one of the best-preserved walled towns in Europe, with its entire ring of medieval brick walls, towers and gates still standing around the old centre, and just outside the eastern gate stands a villa by Andrea Palladio. Villa Pisani at Montagnana, built for Francesco Pisani in the 1550s, is a two-storey palace with a classical façade facing the road, part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. Unlike most of Palladio's country villas, it sits right at the edge of town, more urban palazzo than farmhouse, and its elegant columns make a striking contrast with the rugged walls nearby.
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Villa Pisani comes up 46 km in. 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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91 km in you reach Villa Chiericati. Next is Villa Godi Malinverni.
Every great architect has to start somewhere, and Andrea Palladio started here. Villa Godi, built for the Godi brothers in the late 1530s and early 1540s at Lugo di Vicenza, is considered his first villa, and you can already see the ideas that would make him famous: a clear, symmetrical plan, a central hall flanked by rooms in harmonious proportion, and a building set carefully into the landscape, here on a terrace looking out over the plain. It is still a little stern compared with his later villas, but the frescoes inside, by painters such as Giovanni Battista Zelotti, are lively and colourful. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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Villa Godi Malinverni, about halfway. Next is Villa Barbaro.
At the foot of the Asolo hills, near the village of Maser, a long, golden villa looks out over the plain with the mountains behind it. Villa Barbaro was designed by Andrea Palladio in the 1550s for the brothers Daniele and Marcantonio Barbaro, cultivated Venetian patricians, and it is one of his most perfect works, combining a central house like a temple with long arcaded wings for farm buildings. Inside, the rooms are covered with frescoes by Paolo Veronese, among the finest of the Venetian Renaissance: painted landscapes, mythological figures and trompe l'oeil doors with servants peeping through, a game of illusion that still surprises visitors. Behind the villa, a nymphaeum with statues and a pool sits against the hillside, and nearby stands the Tempietto, a small round church also designed by Palladio. The villa is part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and it remains a working estate producing wine.
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Villa Barbaro sits at 183 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Godi Malinverni.
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back through Villa Godi Malinverni comes up 228 km in. Next is back through Villa Chiericati.
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274 km in you reach back through Villa Chiericati. Next is back through Villa Pisani.
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back through Villa Pisani, late in the day. Next is Diamantina.
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The route ends here after 420 km.
Diamantina → Villa Pisani is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Pisani → Villa Chiericati is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Chiericati → Villa Godi Malinverni is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Barbaro is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Barbaro → back through Villa Godi Malinverni is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Godi Malinverni → back through Villa Chiericati is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Chiericati → back through Villa Pisani is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Pisani → Diamantina is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.