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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212 km from Fanzolo to Fanzolo, about 3 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Angarano, Villa Forni Cerato, Villa Trissino and back through Villa Forni Cerato. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 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.
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 Forni Cerato.
Not every Palladian villa is a palace. Villa Forni Cerato, in Montecchio Precalcino north of Vicenza, is a small, modest building, a cube with a simple loggia and pediment, built in the mid-sixteenth century for Girolamo Forni, a timber merchant and amateur painter. Its attribution to Palladio has been debated, but it is included in the UNESCO-listed City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and its compact harmony shows how Palladio's ideas worked even at a small scale. It is privately owned and not always open, so check before planning a visit.
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about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Forni Cerato. Next is Villa Trissino.
A Palladio villa that was never finished can be more interesting than one that was. At Meledo, a hamlet in the municipality of Sarego south of Vicenza, Andrea Palladio drew up grand plans for the Trissino brothers in the mid-sixteenth century: a central block topped by a dome, with long curved colonnades stretching out like arms toward the river. Only a fragment was built, and what you see today is a modest farm building and some remains incorporated into later structures. Yet the design, published in Palladio's Four Books of Architecture, became one of his most influential, and the site is part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
Read the complete Villa Trissino write-up.
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Villa Trissino, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Forni Cerato.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Forni Cerato write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Villa Forni Cerato sits at 123 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Angarano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Angarano write-up.
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back through Villa Angarano comes up about 181 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Villa Emo closes the day.
Villa Emo → Villa Angarano is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → Villa Forni Cerato is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Forni Cerato → Villa Trissino is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Trissino → back through Villa Forni Cerato is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Forni Cerato → back through Villa Angarano is 27 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.