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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318 km from Vicenza to Vicenza, about 4 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of City of Verona, Molina di Ledro and back through City of Verona. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Villa Almerico Capra is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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City of Verona comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Molina di Ledro.
In 1929, when the level of Lake Ledro was lowered to feed a hydroelectric plant, thousands of wooden posts emerged from the mud near Molina di Ledro. They were the remains of a Bronze Age pile-dwelling village, inhabited some four thousand years ago, and the finds included pottery, tools, weapons, and a canoe. Molina di Ledro is part of the UNESCO-listed Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and the Museo delle Palafitte, on the lake shore, displays the finds alongside reconstructed huts on stilts.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
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about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Molina di Ledro. Next is back through City of Verona.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete City of Verona write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through City of Verona, late in the day. 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.
Back at Villa Almerico Capra. That is the ride.
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 → Molina di Ledro is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Molina di Ledro → back through City of Verona is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through City of Verona → Villa Almerico Capra is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.