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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314 km from Cerea to Cerea, about 5 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Pojana, Villa Chiericati, Villa Godi Malinverni and Villa Barbaro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Tombola is where the day begins. Next is Villa Pojana.
Andrea Palladio could make a farmhouse look like a temple, and at Villa Pojana he did it with remarkable restraint. Built in the mid-sixteenth century for Bonifacio Pojana, a nobleman with military ambitions, the villa stands in the village of Poiana Maggiore in the flat country south of Vicenza. Its facade is almost bare: a great arched entrance framed by a Serlian motif with round windows, a pediment above, smooth plaster walls. The interior has frescoes by artists of the time. Like other Palladian villas of the Veneto, it counts as one component of UNESCO's inscription of the city of Vicenza and the villas around it.
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Villa Pojana comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Chiericati.
Villa Chiericati stands in the flat countryside east of Vicenza, at Vancimuglio near Grumolo delle Abbadesse, a cube of pale plaster with a deep, columned portico that looks as if a Roman temple has been grafted onto a farmhouse. That is precisely what Palladio intended. Designed in the 1550s for Giovanni Chiericati, it is often cited as one of the first villas in which he gave the main façade a full temple front, an idea he would repeat, refine and make famous, and which architects copied for centuries afterwards, from English country houses to the American South. Like the other Palladian villas of the Veneto, it is part of the UNESCO site that includes the city of Vicenza.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Chiericati. Next is Villa Godi Malinverni.
Every great architect has to start somewhere, and Andrea Palladio started here. Villa Godi, built for the Godi brothers in the late 1530s and early 1540s at Lugo di Vicenza, is considered his first villa, and you can already see the ideas that would make him famous: a clear, symmetrical plan, a central hall flanked by rooms in harmonious proportion, and a building set carefully into the landscape, here on a terrace looking out over the plain. It is still a little stern compared with his later villas, but the frescoes inside, by painters such as Giovanni Battista Zelotti, are lively and colourful. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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Villa Godi Malinverni, about halfway. 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.
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Villa Barbaro sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Godi Malinverni.
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back through Villa Godi Malinverni comes up about 202 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Chiericati.
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about 240 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Chiericati. Next is back through Villa Pojana.
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back through Villa Pojana, late in the day. Next is Tombola.
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The route ends here after 314 km.
Tombola → Villa Pojana is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Pojana → Villa Chiericati is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Chiericati → Villa Godi Malinverni is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Barbaro is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Barbaro → back through Villa Godi Malinverni is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Godi Malinverni → back through Villa Chiericati is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Chiericati → back through Villa Pojana is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Pojana → Tombola is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.