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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118 km from Fanzolo to Fanzolo, about 2 h 17 of riding. The stops in between: Villa Angarano, Villa Godi Malinverni and back through Villa Angarano. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Read the complete Villa Emo write-up.
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Villa Emo is where the day begins. Next is Villa Angarano.
Bassano del Grappa sits where the river Brenta leaves the mountains and spreads onto the Venetian plain, and its symbol is a covered wooden bridge, the Ponte Vecchio, designed by Palladio in the sixteenth century and rebuilt several times since after floods and wars. On the right bank of the river, just outside the town, stands Villa Angarano, a country house whose two long colonnaded wings were designed by Palladio, while the central residence was built later, in a different style, by the Venetian architect Baldassare Longhena. The villa is still a working wine estate and belongs to the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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Villa Angarano comes up about 31 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.
Read the complete Villa Godi Malinverni write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Godi Malinverni. Next is back through Villa Angarano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Angarano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Villa Angarano, 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 Angarano is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → Villa Godi Malinverni is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → back through Villa Angarano is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Angarano → Villa Emo is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.