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 233 km round trip from Vicenza - roughly 4 h 21 in the saddle. On the way it passes Villa Godi Malinverni, Villa Barbaro, Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and back through 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.
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.
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Villa Almerico Capra is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 35 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.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Barbaro. 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.
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Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Barbaro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Villa Barbaro sits at 151 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Godi Malinverni.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Godi Malinverni write-up.
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back through Villa Godi Malinverni comes up about 197 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Almerico Capra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Almerico Capra write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Villa Almerico Capra closes the day.
Villa Almerico Capra → Villa Godi Malinverni is 35 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 → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → back through Villa Barbaro is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → Villa Almerico Capra is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.