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 131 km round trip from Caneva - roughly 2 h 45 in the saddle. The stops in between: Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va, Villa Barbaro and back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 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 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Read the complete Villa Barbaro write-up.
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about 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Barbaro. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va, late in the day. Next is 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 at Palù di Livenza - Santissima. That is the ride.
Palù di Livenza - Santissima → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → Villa Barbaro is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Barbaro → back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → Palù di Livenza - Santissima is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.