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 Bassano del Grappa it runs 265 km to Bassano del Grappa; allow about 3 h 38 of riding. The stops in between: Villa Trissino, Villa Badoer and back through Villa Trissino. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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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Villa Angarano is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Villa Trissino comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Badoer.
Fratta Polesine is a quiet village in the Polesine, the flat, fertile land between the Adige and the Po in the south of the Veneto, and its pride is a villa by Andrea Palladio. Villa Badoer, built in the 1550s for Francesco Badoer, a Venetian nobleman, stands on a raised platform above the surrounding fields, with a temple-front portico, curved colonnades sweeping out on either side to farm buildings, and a grand staircase. It was the first of Palladio's villas to use the curved barchesse, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. Inside, the walls carry frescoes, and the villa houses a museum about the Polesine and its history.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Badoer. Next is back through Villa Trissino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Trissino write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Villa Trissino, late in the day. Next is Villa Angarano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Angarano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa Angarano. That is the ride.
Villa Angarano → Villa Trissino is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Trissino → Villa Badoer is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Badoer → back through Villa Trissino is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Trissino → Villa Angarano is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.