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 Fanzolo it runs 348 km to Fanzolo; allow about 5 h 54 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Zeno, Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave and back through Villa Zeno. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Andrea Palladio built villas for the Venetian nobility as working farms, not just as country houses, and Villa Emo at Fanzolo is perhaps the purest example of that idea. Completed around 1560 for the Emo family, it stands at the centre of a flat, fertile estate, with a long, symmetrical central block flanked by two arcaded wings, the barchesse, which housed the farm buildings, storage and dovecotes. The ramp leading up to the front door was used for threshing grain. Inside, the rooms are decorated with frescoes by Giovanni Battista Zelotti, mythological and allegorical scenes that bring colour and life to the classical architecture. The villa is part of the UNESCO listing of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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Villa Emo is where the day begins. Next is Villa Zeno.
Andrea Palladio designed Villa Zeno at Cessalto in the middle of the sixteenth century, and it stands among the flat fields of the lower Piave plain, about five kilometres from the little town of Ceggia and not far from the Livenza river. It is one of the villas of the Veneto that were collectively inscribed on the World Heritage list, and it is quite different from the grand Palladian pieces near Vicenza: an agricultural house, plain and practical, with a broad central block and a pair of long service wings.
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Villa Zeno comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave.
The Friulian Dolomites are the quiet cousins of the famous peaks around Cortina, and that is precisely their charm. West of the Tagliamento, between the Piave and the Friulian plain, these rugged limestone mountains rise in jagged ridges and pinnacles, with deep valleys and very few roads. They are part of the UNESCO Dolomites site and form the Parco Naturale delle Dolomiti Friulane, a wild area of forests, gorges and rock towers, including the extraordinary Campanile di Val Montanaia, a needle of rock standing alone in a high valley like a stone bell tower. Chamois, ibex, golden eagles and marmots live here, and the silence on the high trails is profound.
Read the complete Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave write-up.
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about 175 km into the recorded legs you reach Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave. Next is back through Villa Zeno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Zeno write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Villa Zeno, late in the day. Next is Villa Emo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Emo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa Emo. That is the ride.
Villa Emo → Villa Zeno is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Villa Zeno → Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → back through Villa Zeno is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Villa Zeno → Villa Emo is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.