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 292 km round trip from Cimolais - roughly 4 h 22 in the saddle. It goes by way of Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va, Villa Foscari and back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Friulian Dolomites are the quiet cousins of the famous peaks around Cortina, and that is precisely their charm. West of the Tagliamento, between the Piave and the Friulian plain, these rugged limestone mountains rise in jagged ridges and pinnacles, with deep valleys and very few roads. They are part of the UNESCO Dolomites site and form the Parco Naturale delle Dolomiti Friulane, a wild area of forests, gorges and rock towers, including the extraordinary Campanile di Val Montanaia, a needle of rock standing alone in a high valley like a stone bell tower. Chamois, ibex, golden eagles and marmots live here, and the silence on the high trails is profound.
Read the complete Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave write-up.
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Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
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Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Villa Foscari write-up.
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about 146 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Foscari. Next is back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va, late in the day. Next is Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave. That is the ride.
Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → Villa Foscari is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Villa Foscari → back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.