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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A 234 km round trip from Cornuda - roughly 3 h 48 in the saddle. It goes by way of Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani, Villa Godi Malinverni and back through Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Godi Malinverni.
Every great architect has to start somewhere, and Andrea Palladio started here. Villa Godi, built for the Godi brothers in the late 1530s and early 1540s at Lugo di Vicenza, is considered his first villa, and you can already see the ideas that would make him famous: a clear, symmetrical plan, a central hall flanked by rooms in harmonious proportion, and a building set carefully into the landscape, here on a terrace looking out over the plain. It is still a little stern compared with his later villas, but the frescoes inside, by painters such as Giovanni Battista Zelotti, are lively and colourful. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Godi Malinverni. 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 Godi Malinverni is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → back through Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani is 63 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.