Why this ride
299 km from Fratta Polesine to Fratta Polesine, about 5 h 02 of riding. The stops in between: Villa Pisani, Villa Chiericati, Villa Pojana and Tombola. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Villa Badoer and Tombola
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 299 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 02
- 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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
Read the complete Villa Badoer write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Villa Badoer 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
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Villa Pisani comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Chiericati.
3. Villa Chiericati
Villa Chiericati stands in the flat countryside east of Vicenza, at Vancimuglio near Grumolo delle Abbadesse, a cube of pale plaster with a deep, columned portico that looks as if a Roman temple has been grafted onto a farmhouse. That is precisely what Palladio intended. Designed in the 1550s for Giovanni Chiericati, it is often cited as one of the first villas in which he gave the main façade a full temple front, an idea he would repeat, refine and make famous, and which architects copied for centuries afterwards, from English country houses to the American South. Like the other Palladian villas of the Veneto, it is part of the UNESCO site that includes the city of Vicenza.
Read the complete Villa Chiericati write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Chiericati. 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
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Villa Pojana, about halfway. Next is Tombola.
5. 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
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Tombola sits at 150 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
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Villa Pojana comes up about 182 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Chiericati.
7. back through Villa Chiericati
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Chiericati write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 216 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Chiericati. 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
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Villa Pisani, late in the day. Next is Villa Badoer.
9. Villa Badoer
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Badoer 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 299 km.
Leg by leg
Villa Badoer to Villa Pisani
Villa Badoer → Villa Pisani is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Pisani to Villa Chiericati
Villa Pisani → Villa Chiericati is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Chiericati to Villa Pojana
Villa Chiericati → Villa Pojana is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Pojana to Tombola
Villa Pojana → Tombola is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tombola to back through Villa Pojana
Tombola → back through Villa Pojana is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Pojana to back through Villa Chiericati
back through Villa Pojana → back through Villa Chiericati is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Chiericati to back through Villa Pisani
back through Villa Chiericati → back through Villa Pisani is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Pisani to Villa Badoer
back through Villa Pisani → Villa Badoer is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.