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 78 km round trip from Torri di Quartesolo - roughly 1 h 35 in the saddle. On the way it passes Villa Valmarana Bressan, Villa Godi Malinverni and back through Villa Valmarana Bressan. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
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Villa Chiericati is where the day begins. Next is Villa Valmarana Bressan.
Palladio had a way of making a house look like a temple, and his clients were happy to pay for it. Andrea Palladio, born in Padua in 1508 and trained in Vicenza as a stonemason, designed dozens of villas for the landowners of the Veneto, using the proportions of ancient Rome to give their country houses a sense of order and dignity. The Villa Valmarana, at Monticello Conte Otto, just north of Vicenza, dates from the middle of the sixteenth century and is one of the buildings that UNESCO lists with the city of Vicenza and the Palladian villas of the Veneto. It stands in a field, with a pedimented front and neat flanks, and the loggia is the sort of space that makes you want to sit down and read.
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Villa Valmarana Bressan comes up about 19 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 39 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Godi Malinverni. Next is back through Villa Valmarana Bressan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Valmarana Bressan write-up.
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back through Villa Valmarana Bressan, 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 → Villa Valmarana Bressan is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Valmarana Bressan → Villa Godi Malinverni is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → back through Villa Valmarana Bressan is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Valmarana Bressan → Villa Chiericati is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.