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 399 km round trip from Padova - roughly 7 h 48 in the saddle. On the way it passes Villa Foscari, Villa Emo, Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare is where the day begins. 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.
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Villa Foscari comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 79 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Emo. 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, about halfway. Next is Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti.
The Val di San Lucano is a deep, shadowed gash in the southern Dolomites, and the point here lies near Rivamonte and Voltago, in the Agordino, the upper valley of the Cordevole river. The big, pale walls on either side belong to the Pale di San Martino group, one of the nine sets of mountains included in the Dolomites World Heritage listing of 2009, and their sheer rock faces rise more than a thousand metres above the narrow valley floor.
Read the complete Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti write-up.
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Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti sits at 176 km, about halfway. Next is back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
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Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
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back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va comes up about 262 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Emo.
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Read the complete Villa Emo write-up.
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about 308 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Emo. Next is back through Villa Foscari.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Foscari write-up.
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back through Villa Foscari, late in the day. Next is 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.
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The route ends here after 399 km.
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 → Villa Emo is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti → back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → back through Villa Emo is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Emo → back through Villa Foscari is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Foscari → Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.