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 Cornuda it runs 224 km to Cornuda; allow about 3 h 32 of riding. On the way it passes Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani, Villa Badoer and back through Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani. The line favours views over speed.
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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Villa Barbaro is where the day begins. Next is Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani.
Giotto painted the Scrovegni Chapel in about two years, between 1303 and 1305, and it changed how Europeans drew people. Before him faces were icons; here they are tired, tender, furious, ashamed. The chapel was commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni, whose father Reginaldo was a moneylender so notorious that Dante put him in hell. Enrico built the chapel beside the family palace, so the story goes, to ease his father's soul, and the result is a small brick box covered inside with a blue ceiling of gold stars and thirty-odd scenes from the lives of Mary and Christ, ending with a vast Last Judgment on the west wall.
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Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani comes up about 53 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 110 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Badoer. Next is back through Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani, late in the day. Next is Villa Barbaro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Barbaro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa Barbaro. That is the ride.
Villa Barbaro → Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani → Villa Badoer is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Badoer → back through Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani → Villa Barbaro is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.