Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti and Villa Barbaro
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Recorded distance
348 km
Riding-time estimate
5 h 58
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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From Rivamonte Agordino it runs 348 km to Rivamonte Agordino; allow about 5 h 58 of riding. The stops in between: Palù di Livenza - Santissima, Villa Barbaro and back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
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Planning note
Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti is where the day begins. Next is Palù di Livenza - Santissima.
2. Palù di Livenza - Santissima
At the foot of the Cansiglio plateau, where the Friulian mountains meet the plain, the river Livenza is born from springs of cold, clear water that rise from the limestone, and a little sanctuary, the Santissima, stands right by the source, surrounded by water. Not far away, in a marshy basin called the Palù di Livenza, archaeologists found the remains of a prehistoric pile dwelling settlement, with wooden posts, tools and pottery preserved in the wet ground for thousands of years. It is one of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps listed by UNESCO, a series of more than a hundred sites in six countries that tell the story of farming communities living on the edges of lakes and marshes from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
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Planning note
Palù di Livenza - Santissima comes up about 101 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Barbaro.
3. Villa Barbaro
At the foot of the Asolo hills, near the village of Maser, a long, golden villa looks out over the plain with the mountains behind it. Villa Barbaro was designed by Andrea Palladio in the 1550s for the brothers Daniele and Marcantonio Barbaro, cultivated Venetian patricians, and it is one of his most perfect works, combining a central house like a temple with long arcaded wings for farm buildings. Inside, the rooms are covered with frescoes by Paolo Veronese, among the finest of the Venetian Renaissance: painted landscapes, mythological figures and trompe l'oeil doors with servants peeping through, a game of illusion that still surprises visitors. Behind the villa, a nymphaeum with statues and a pool sits against the hillside, and nearby stands the Tempietto, a small round church also designed by Palladio. The villa is part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and it remains a working estate producing wine.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti to Palù di Livenza - Santissima
Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti → Palù di Livenza - Santissima is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palù di Livenza - Santissima to Villa Barbaro
Palù di Livenza - Santissima → Villa Barbaro is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Barbaro to back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima
Villa Barbaro → back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima to Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti
back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima → Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.