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 385 km round trip from Rivamonte Agordino - roughly 6 h in the saddle. On the way it passes Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va, Villa Emo, Villa Thiene and Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 69 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 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Emo. Next is 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.
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Villa Thiene, about halfway. Next is 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.
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Palazzo de la Ragione Chapel of the Carare sits at 174 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Thiene.
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back through Villa Thiene comes up about 233 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 270 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Emo. Next is back through 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.
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back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va, late in the day. Next is Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti write-up.
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The route ends here after 385 km.
Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → Villa Thiene is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Villa Thiene is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.