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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352 km from Rivamonte Agordino to Rivamonte Agordino, about 5 h 57 of riding. The stops in between: Palù di Livenza - Santissima, Villa Emo and back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 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.
Read the complete Palù di Livenza - Santissima write-up.
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Palù di Livenza - Santissima comes up about 101 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.
Read the complete Villa Emo write-up.
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about 176 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Emo. Next is back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palù di Livenza - Santissima write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima, 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti. That is the ride.
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 → Villa Emo is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Villa Emo → back through Palù di Livenza - Santissima is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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.