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 289 km round trip from Torri di Quartesolo - roughly 4 h 19 in the saddle. The stops in between: Tombola, Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda and back through Tombola. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 67 km this is Mille Miglia Historic Route Core, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Villa Chiericati is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Tombola comes up about 86 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda.
Water surrounds Peschiera on every side, and that was the whole idea. The town sits where the River Mincio flows out of the southern end of Lake Garda, and in the sixteenth century the Republic of Venice turned it into a star-shaped fortress with massive pentagonal walls, bastions and moats fed by the lake and the river. Later the Austrians made it one of the four corners of the Quadrilatero, the defensive square of fortresses that guarded their hold on northern Italy in the nineteenth century. In 2017 Peschiera became part of the UNESCO listing of Venetian works of defence between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, alongside Bergamo, Palmanova and fortresses on the Adriatic.
Read the complete Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda write-up.
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about 153 km into the recorded legs you reach Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda. Next is back through Tombola.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tombola write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Tombola, late in the day. Next is Villa Chiericati.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Chiericati write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa Chiericati. That is the ride.
Villa Chiericati → Tombola is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tombola → Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fortified city of Peschiera del Garda → back through Tombola is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tombola → Villa Chiericati is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.