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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From Vicenza it runs 92 km to Vicenza; allow about 1 h 51 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Forni Cerato, Villa Angarano and back through Villa Forni Cerato. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 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.
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Villa Almerico Capra is where the day begins. Next is Villa Forni Cerato.
Not every Palladian villa is a palace. Villa Forni Cerato, in Montecchio Precalcino north of Vicenza, is a small, modest building, a cube with a simple loggia and pediment, built in the mid-sixteenth century for Girolamo Forni, a timber merchant and amateur painter. Its attribution to Palladio has been debated, but it is included in the UNESCO-listed City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and its compact harmony shows how Palladio's ideas worked even at a small scale. It is privately owned and not always open, so check before planning a visit.
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Villa Forni Cerato comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Angarano.
Bassano del Grappa sits where the river Brenta leaves the mountains and spreads onto the Venetian plain, and its symbol is a covered wooden bridge, the Ponte Vecchio, designed by Palladio in the sixteenth century and rebuilt several times since after floods and wars. On the right bank of the river, just outside the town, stands Villa Angarano, a country house whose two long colonnaded wings were designed by Palladio, while the central residence was built later, in a different style, by the Venetian architect Baldassare Longhena. The villa is still a working wine estate and belongs to the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Angarano. Next is back through Villa Forni Cerato.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Forni Cerato write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Villa Forni Cerato, 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 → Villa Forni Cerato is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Forni Cerato → Villa Angarano is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → back through Villa Forni Cerato is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Forni Cerato → Villa Almerico Capra is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.