Why this ride
285 km from Trebaseleghe to Trebaseleghe, about 5 h 54 of riding. The stops in between: Oratory of St.Michael, Villa Saraceno, Tombola and Mantua and Sabbioneta. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Villa Cornaro and Mantua and Sabbioneta
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 285 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 54
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Villa Cornaro
Piombino Dese is a quiet village on the flat plain between Padua and Treviso, the kind of place you pass through on the way to somewhere else. Stop on the main road, though, and look at the house set back behind its lawn. Villa Cornaro was designed by Andrea Palladio in the early 1550s for Giorgio Cornaro, a member of one of the grandest Venetian families, and its central portico rises in two storeys of columns, one loggia stacked on another like a temple front on a temple front. On the garden side the same double loggia faces a long lawn. It is one of the most copied houses in architectural history, and echoes of it can be seen in country houses across England and in mansions of the American South. The villa is part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and it opens to visitors on certain days in the warmer months.
Read the complete Villa Cornaro write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Villa Cornaro is where the day begins. Next is Oratory of St.Michael, 39 km on.
2. Oratory of St.Michael
In the old centre of Padua, near the medieval tower that later became an astronomical observatory, a small oratory hides one of the city's quieter treasures. The Oratory of St Michael contains frescoes painted by Jacopo da Verona at the end of the fourteenth century, scenes from the life of the Virgin populated with recognisable citizens of Padua dressed in the fashions of the day. It is one of eight sites inscribed in 2021 as Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles, the group that also includes Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel.
Read the complete Oratory of St.Michael write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Oratory of St.Michael comes up 39 km in. Next is Villa Saraceno.
3. Villa Saraceno
In the countryside south of the Berici Hills, near the village of Agugliaro, Villa Saraceno is one of the simplest and most elegant of Andrea Palladio's villas, built in the mid-sixteenth century for Biagio Saraceno, a Vicentine nobleman. It is a compact building with a classical portico of arches and a triangular pediment, set among farmland, and it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
Read the complete Villa Saraceno write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
78 km in you reach Villa Saraceno. Next is Tombola.
4. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Tombola, about halfway. Next is Mantua and Sabbioneta.
5. Mantua and Sabbioneta
Approach Mantua from the north across the causeway and you see why it was so hard to conquer: the city rises from water on three sides, encircled by lakes formed from the river Mincio, its domes and towers reflected in the still surface. For nearly four centuries it belonged to the Gonzaga family, who turned a marshy town into one of the most brilliant courts of the Renaissance, and Mantua is listed by UNESCO together with Sabbioneta, the small ideal city that a branch of the same family built some thirty kilometres away.
Read the complete Mantua and Sabbioneta write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Mantua and Sabbioneta sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tombola.
6. back through Tombola
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tombola write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Tombola comes up 194 km in. Next is back through Villa Saraceno.
7. back through Villa Saraceno
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Saraceno write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
233 km in you reach back through Villa Saraceno. Next is back through Oratory of St.Michael, 38 km on.
8. back through Oratory of St.Michael
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oratory of St.Michael write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Oratory of St.Michael, late in the day. Next is Villa Cornaro.
9. Villa Cornaro
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Cornaro write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
The route ends here after 285 km.
Leg by leg
Villa Cornaro to Oratory of St.Michael
Villa Cornaro → Oratory of St.Michael is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oratory of St.Michael to Villa Saraceno
Oratory of St.Michael → Villa Saraceno is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Saraceno to Tombola
Villa Saraceno → Tombola is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tombola to Mantua and Sabbioneta
Tombola → Mantua and Sabbioneta is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mantua and Sabbioneta to back through Tombola
Mantua and Sabbioneta → back through Tombola is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tombola to back through Villa Saraceno
back through Tombola → back through Villa Saraceno is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Saraceno to back through Oratory of St.Michael
back through Villa Saraceno → back through Oratory of St.Michael is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oratory of St.Michael to Villa Cornaro
back through Oratory of St.Michael → Villa Cornaro is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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