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 Caldogno-Rettorgole-Cresole it runs 293 km to Caldogno-Rettorgole-Cresole; allow about 4 h 15 of riding. The stops in between: Villa Serego, The monumental area with the monastic comp and back through Villa Serego. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 71 km this is Lake Garda Western Shore and Strada della Forra, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
Read the complete Villa Caldogno write-up.
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Villa Caldogno is where the day begins. Next is Villa Serego.
Andrea Palladio built many villas around the Veneto, but the one at Santa Sofia di Pedemonte, in the Valpolicella just north-west of Verona, is the oddball of the family. Commissioned by Marcantonio Serego in the mid-sixteenth century and never finished, it has none of the smooth classical calm of the Rotonda. Instead its courtyard is lined with giant Ionic columns built up from rough, rusticated blocks of local stone, as if the building were half turning back into the hillside. Only part of the planned design was completed, and the effect is wonderfully strange.
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Villa Serego comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is The monumental area with the monastic comp.
The centre of Brescia holds two thousand years of layered history within a few hundred metres. Along the old Roman main street, the Capitolium temple raised under Vespasian still lifts its columns above the forum, with a Roman theatre beside it, and a short walk away the monastery of San Salvatore and Santa Giulia spreads its cloisters and churches over the site of Roman houses. The monastery was founded in the eighth century by Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards, and his wife Ansa; their daughter Ermengarda, rejected by Charlemagne, is said to have ended her days here.
Read the complete The monumental area with the monastic comp write-up.
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about 146 km into the recorded legs you reach The monumental area with the monastic comp. Next is back through Villa Serego.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Serego write-up.
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back through Villa Serego, late in the day. Next is Villa Caldogno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Caldogno write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa Caldogno. That is the ride.
Villa Caldogno → Villa Serego is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Serego → The monumental area with the monastic comp is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The monumental area with the monastic comp → back through Villa Serego is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Villa Serego → Villa Caldogno is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.