Why this ride
183 km from Cerea to Cerea, about 3 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Pisani, Villa Pisani Ferri, Villa Pojana and Villa Trissino.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Tombola and Villa Trissino
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 183 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 46
- 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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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
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Planning note
Tombola is where the day begins. Next is Villa Pisani.
2. Villa Pisani
Montagnana is one of the best-preserved walled towns in Europe, with its entire ring of medieval brick walls, towers and gates still standing around the old centre, and just outside the eastern gate stands a villa by Andrea Palladio. Villa Pisani at Montagnana, built for Francesco Pisani in the 1550s, is a two-storey palace with a classical façade facing the road, part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. Unlike most of Palladio's country villas, it sits right at the edge of town, more urban palazzo than farmhouse, and its elegant columns make a striking contrast with the rugged walls nearby.
Read the complete Villa Pisani write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Villa Pisani comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Pisani Ferri.
3. Villa Pisani Ferri
Andrea Palladio was still a young architect, not long out of his training as a stonemason, when the Pisani brothers, members of a powerful Venetian family, asked him to design a country house at Bagnolo, near Lonigo, in the late 1530s or early 1540s. The result, now known as Villa Pisani Ferri, is one of his early villas, a solid, symmetrical house with a grand central hall and a facade facing the river, part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. Visits depend on the owners' arrangements, so check ahead if you hope to go inside.
Read the complete Villa Pisani Ferri write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 48 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Pisani Ferri. Next is Villa Pojana.
4. 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.
Read the complete Villa Pojana write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Villa Pojana, about halfway. Next is Villa Trissino.
5. Villa Trissino
A Palladio villa that was never finished can be more interesting than one that was. At Meledo, a hamlet in the municipality of Sarego south of Vicenza, Andrea Palladio drew up grand plans for the Trissino brothers in the mid-sixteenth century: a central block topped by a dome, with long curved colonnades stretching out like arms toward the river. Only a fragment was built, and what you see today is a modest farm building and some remains incorporated into later structures. Yet the design, published in Palladio's Four Books of Architecture, became one of his most influential, and the site is part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
Read the complete Villa Trissino write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Villa Trissino sits at 91 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Pojana.
6. back through Villa Pojana
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Pojana write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Villa Pojana comes up about 116 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Pisani Ferri.
7. back through Villa Pisani Ferri
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Pisani Ferri write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Pisani Ferri. Next is back through Villa Pisani.
8. back through Villa Pisani
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Pisani write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Villa Pisani, late in the day. Next is Tombola.
9. 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
The route ends here after 183 km.
Leg by leg
Tombola to Villa Pisani
Tombola → Villa Pisani is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Pisani to Villa Pisani Ferri
Villa Pisani → Villa Pisani Ferri is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Pisani Ferri to Villa Pojana
Villa Pisani Ferri → Villa Pojana is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Pojana to Villa Trissino
Villa Pojana → Villa Trissino is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Trissino to back through Villa Pojana
Villa Trissino → back through Villa Pojana is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Pojana to back through Villa Pisani Ferri
back through Villa Pojana → back through Villa Pisani Ferri is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Pisani Ferri to back through Villa Pisani
back through Villa Pisani Ferri → back through Villa Pisani is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Pisani to Tombola
back through Villa Pisani → Tombola is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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