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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299 km from Padova to Padova, about 4 h 03 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Godi Malinverni, City of Verona and back through Villa Godi Malinverni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
In the old centre of Padua, near the medieval tower that later became an astronomical observatory, a small oratory hides one of the city's quieter treasures. The Oratory of St Michael contains frescoes painted by Jacopo da Verona at the end of the fourteenth century, scenes from the life of the Virgin populated with recognisable citizens of Padua dressed in the fashions of the day. It is one of eight sites inscribed in 2021 as Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles, the group that also includes Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel.
Read the complete Oratory of St.Michael write-up.
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Oratory of St.Michael is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is City of Verona.
Verona is where the north of Italy starts to feel like the south, and where history piles up in layers so thick that you trip over them. The Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, still dominates Piazza Bra and still hosts opera in summer, with tens of thousands of people sitting on stone steps two thousand years old. The Adige river swings through town in a double bend, crossed by bridges including the Ponte Pietra, part Roman and rebuilt after the Germans blew it up in 1945. And of course there is Juliet's balcony, which was added to a medieval house in the twentieth century to satisfy visitors searching for the Shakespeare story; people queue to rub the breast of her bronze statue for luck.
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about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach City of Verona. Next is back through Villa Godi Malinverni.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Godi Malinverni write-up.
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back through Villa Godi Malinverni, late in the day. Next is Oratory of St.Michael, 68 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oratory of St.Michael write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Oratory of St.Michael. That is the ride.
Oratory of St.Michael → Villa Godi Malinverni is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → City of Verona is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
City of Verona → back through Villa Godi Malinverni is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Villa Godi Malinverni → Oratory of St.Michael is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.