Why this ride
325 km from Corbanese to Corbanese, about 6 h 21 of riding. The stops in between: Villa Emo, Villa Thiene, Villa Saraceno and Tombola. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and Tombola
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 325 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 21
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is where the day begins. Next is Villa Emo.
2. Villa Emo
Andrea Palladio built villas for the Venetian nobility as working farms, not just as country houses, and Villa Emo at Fanzolo is perhaps the purest example of that idea. Completed around 1560 for the Emo family, it stands at the centre of a flat, fertile estate, with a long, symmetrical central block flanked by two arcaded wings, the barchesse, which housed the farm buildings, storage and dovecotes. The ramp leading up to the front door was used for threshing grain. Inside, the rooms are decorated with frescoes by Giovanni Battista Zelotti, mythological and allegorical scenes that bring colour and life to the classical architecture. The villa is part of the UNESCO listing of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
Read the complete Villa Emo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Villa Emo comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Thiene.
3. Villa Thiene
Quinto Vicentino is a quiet farming town on the flat plain just north-east of Vicenza, and its town hall happens to be a villa by Andrea Palladio. Villa Thiene was commissioned in the sixteenth century by the brothers Marcantonio and Adriano Thiene, members of one of the most powerful families in Vicenza, and Palladio drew up a grand design for it with courtyards and wings that would have spread across the fields. Only part of that plan was ever built. What stands today is a solid, rather austere block, and the council offices are inside it, which gives the place a pleasingly everyday feeling.
Read the complete Villa Thiene write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 84 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Thiene. Next is Villa Saraceno.
4. Villa Saraceno
In the countryside south of the Berici Hills, near the village of Agugliaro, Villa Saraceno is one of the simplest and most elegant of Andrea Palladio's villas, built in the mid-sixteenth century for Biagio Saraceno, a Vicentine nobleman. It is a compact building with a classical portico of arches and a triangular pediment, set among farmland, and it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
Read the complete Villa Saraceno write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Villa Saraceno, about halfway. Next is Tombola.
5. Tombola
In the flat, fertile plain south of Verona, near the town of Cerea, a low rise in the fields called Tombola hides the remains of a Bronze Age settlement. The site is listed among the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it belongs to a group of wetland villages that once stood among the marshes of the Valli Grandi Veronesi, a large area of wetland that was drained and reclaimed over the centuries.
Read the complete Tombola write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Tombola sits at 170 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Saraceno.
6. back through Villa Saraceno
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Saraceno write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Villa Saraceno comes up about 205 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Thiene.
7. back through Villa Thiene
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Thiene write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 242 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Thiene. Next is back through Villa Emo.
8. back through Villa Emo
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Emo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Villa Emo, late in the day. Next is Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
9. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 325 km.
Leg by leg
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va to Villa Emo
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → Villa Emo is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Emo to Villa Thiene
Villa Emo → Villa Thiene is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Thiene to Villa Saraceno
Villa Thiene → Villa Saraceno is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Saraceno to Tombola
Villa Saraceno → Tombola is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tombola to back through Villa Saraceno
Tombola → back through Villa Saraceno is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Saraceno to back through Villa Thiene
back through Villa Saraceno → back through Villa Thiene is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Thiene to back through Villa Emo
back through Villa Thiene → back through Villa Emo is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Emo to Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va
back through Villa Emo → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.