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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From Monselice it runs 314 km to Monselice; allow about 5 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Chiericati, Villa Pisani Ferri, City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o and Villa Angarano. 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.
The Euganean Hills rise abruptly from the flat plain south-west of Padua, a cluster of volcanic cones covered in vineyards, chestnut woods and olive groves. Arquà Petrarca, a medieval village on the southern slopes, is where the poet Petrarch spent his last years and died in 1374; his house can still be visited. Close by, in a small hollow between the hills, lies the Laghetto della Costa, a tiny lake that hides a big secret.
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Laghetto della Costa 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 48 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Pisani Ferri.
Andrea Palladio was still a young architect, not long out of his training as a stonemason, when the Pisani brothers, members of a powerful Venetian family, asked him to design a country house at Bagnolo, near Lonigo, in the late 1530s or early 1540s. The result, now known as Villa Pisani Ferri, is one of his early villas, a solid, symmetrical house with a grand central hall and a facade facing the river, part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. Visits depend on the owners' arrangements, so check ahead if you hope to go inside.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Pisani Ferri. 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.
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City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o, about halfway. 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 sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o.
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back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o comes up about 203 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Pisani Ferri.
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about 238 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Pisani Ferri. Next is back through Villa Chiericati.
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Read the complete Villa Chiericati write-up.
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back through Villa Chiericati, late in the day. Next is Laghetto della Costa.
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Read the complete Laghetto della Costa write-up.
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The route ends here after 314 km.
Laghetto della Costa → Villa Chiericati is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Chiericati → Villa Pisani Ferri is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Pisani Ferri → City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o → Villa Angarano is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o → back through Villa Pisani Ferri is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Pisani Ferri → back through Villa Chiericati is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Chiericati → Laghetto della Costa is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.