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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185 km from Cornuda to Cornuda, about 4 h 15 of riding. On the way it passes Villa Angarano, Villa Godi Malinverni, Villa Caldogno and Villa Piovene. 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 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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Villa Angarano comes up about 24 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 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Godi Malinverni. Next is Villa Caldogno.
Villa Caldogno is one of the quieter Palladian villas, standing in a park on the edge of the town of the same name, a few kilometres north of Vicenza. Andrea Palladio designed it in the mid-sixteenth century for the Caldogno family, and it shows his early style: a compact, symmetrical block with a triple-arched loggia in the centre, a pediment above, and no unnecessary decoration. Inside, the main hall and rooms are covered with frescoes by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo and Giovanni Battista Zelotti, depicting scenes of country life, banquets, games and love, painted with charm and humour. Like the other villas of the Veneto, it belongs to the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas.
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Villa Caldogno, about halfway. Next is Villa Piovene.
Palladio designed villas the way other architects write poetry, with proportion, rhythm and an ear for the landscape, and Villa Piovene at Lugo di Vicenza is one of his early ones. It stands on a slope at the foot of the Venetian pre-Alps, north of Vicenza, a stern box of pale stone fronted by a tall flight of steps and a temple-like portico of Ionic columns. The house was meant to be seen from below, rising out of the garden like a small temple, and the effect is of calm authority. Palladio is said to have designed it in the 1540s for the Piovene family, who were wealthy merchants and landowners.
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Villa Piovene sits at 88 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Caldogno.
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back through Villa Caldogno comes up about 112 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Godi Malinverni.
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about 132 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Godi Malinverni. Next is back through Villa Angarano.
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back through Villa Angarano, late in the day. Next is Villa Barbaro.
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The route ends here after 185 km.
Villa Barbaro → Villa Angarano is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → Villa Godi Malinverni is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Caldogno is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Caldogno → Villa Piovene is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Piovene → back through Villa Caldogno is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Caldogno → back through Villa Godi Malinverni is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Godi Malinverni → back through Villa Angarano is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Angarano → Villa Barbaro is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.