Why this ride
From Corbanese it runs 317 km to Corbanese; allow about 5 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Emo, Villa Thiene, Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare and Villa Foscari. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and Villa Foscari
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 317 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 47
- 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 Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare.
4. Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare
Padua's Palazzo della Ragione is the big hall that sits between the two market squares, Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza della Frutta, and it has done that job since the early thirteenth century, when the city was a self-governing commune and wanted a building big enough for its courts. The enormous upper hall, with a roof shaped like an upturned ship's keel, is said to be one of the largest medieval halls in Europe, its walls covered in astrological frescoes and a giant wooden horse standing at one end. Downstairs the arcades still house butchers, cheesemongers and cafes, which is the best sign that the building has remained a living part of town.
Read the complete Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare, about halfway. Next is Villa Foscari.
5. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Villa Foscari sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare.
6. back through Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare comes up about 196 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 235 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
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Planning note
The route ends here after 317 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 Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare
Villa Thiene → Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare to Villa Foscari
Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare → Villa Foscari is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Foscari to back through Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare
Villa Foscari → back through Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare to back through Villa Thiene
back through Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare → back through Villa Thiene is 39 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.