Why this ride
From Cerea it runs 259 km to Cerea; allow about 3 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Almerico Capra, City of Verona and back through Villa Almerico Capra.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Tombola and City of Verona
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 259 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 50
- 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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Tombola
In the flat, fertile plain south of Verona, near the town of Cerea, a low rise in the fields called Tombola hides the remains of a Bronze Age settlement. The site is listed among the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it belongs to a group of wetland villages that once stood among the marshes of the Valli Grandi Veronesi, a large area of wetland that was drained and reclaimed over the centuries.
Read the complete Tombola write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Tombola is where the day begins. Next is Villa Almerico Capra.
2. Villa Almerico Capra
The Villa Almerico Capra, known as La Rotonda, stands on a small hill above Vicenza, and it is one of the most copied buildings in the history of architecture. Andrea Palladio began it in the 1560s for a retired papal official, Paolo Almerico, who wanted a place for entertaining and for looking at the view rather than for farming. The plan is a perfect square, with a round hall under a dome at the centre, and each of the four sides has an identical portico with Ionic columns and a flight of steps, so that the house presents the same face to every direction. The idea was that the building should be an ornament to the landscape, and the landscape an ornament to the house.
Read the complete Villa Almerico Capra write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Villa Almerico Capra comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is City of Verona.
3. City of Verona
Verona is where the north of Italy starts to feel like the south, and where history piles up in layers so thick that you trip over them. The Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, still dominates Piazza Bra and still hosts opera in summer, with tens of thousands of people sitting on stone steps two thousand years old. The Adige river swings through town in a double bend, crossed by bridges including the Ponte Pietra, part Roman and rebuilt after the Germans blew it up in 1945. And of course there is Juliet's balcony, which was added to a medieval house in the twentieth century to satisfy visitors searching for the Shakespeare story; people queue to rub the breast of her bronze statue for luck.
Read the complete City of Verona write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach City of Verona. Next is back through Villa Almerico Capra.
4. back through Villa Almerico Capra
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Almerico Capra write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Villa Almerico Capra, late in the day. Next is Tombola.
5. Tombola
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tombola write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Tombola. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Tombola to Villa Almerico Capra
Tombola → Villa Almerico Capra is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Almerico Capra to City of Verona
Villa Almerico Capra → City of Verona is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City of Verona to back through Villa Almerico Capra
City of Verona → back through Villa Almerico Capra is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Almerico Capra to Tombola
back through Villa Almerico Capra → Tombola is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.