Why this ride
A 416 km round trip from Sandrigo - roughly 7 h in the saddle. It goes by way of Villa Trissino, Laghetto della Costa, Villa Badoer and MamBo. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Villa Forni Cerato and MamBo
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 416 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 52
- 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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Scenic road chapters
Mille Miglia Historic Route Core
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 86 km this is Mille Miglia Historic Route Core, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 86 km
- Named road
- Mille Miglia Historic Route Core
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
Read the complete Villa Forni Cerato write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Villa Forni Cerato is where the day begins. Next is Villa Trissino.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Villa Trissino comes up 51 km in. Next is Laghetto della Costa.
3. Laghetto della Costa
The Euganean Hills rise abruptly from the flat plain south-west of Padua, a cluster of volcanic cones covered in vineyards, chestnut woods and olive groves. Arquà Petrarca, a medieval village on the southern slopes, is where the poet Petrarch spent his last years and died in 1374; his house can still be visited. Close by, in a small hollow between the hills, lies the Laghetto della Costa, a tiny lake that hides a big secret.
Read the complete Laghetto della Costa write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
102 km in you reach Laghetto della Costa. Next is Villa Badoer.
4. Villa Badoer
Fratta Polesine is a quiet village in the Polesine, the flat, fertile land between the Adige and the Po in the south of the Veneto, and its pride is a villa by Andrea Palladio. Villa Badoer, built in the 1550s for Francesco Badoer, a Venetian nobleman, stands on a raised platform above the surrounding fields, with a temple-front portico, curved colonnades sweeping out on either side to farm buildings, and a grand staircase. It was the first of Palladio's villas to use the curved barchesse, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. Inside, the walls carry frescoes, and the villa houses a museum about the Polesine and its history.
Read the complete Villa Badoer write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Villa Badoer, about halfway. Next is MamBo.
5. MamBo
Not every checkpoint on a ride needs to be old. MamBo, the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, opened in 2007 in a former municipal bakery on the northern edge of the old centre, and the building says a lot about how Bologna thinks. The city turned the factory where it once baked bread for its people into a home for twentieth-century and contemporary art, with a strong collection of Giorgio Morandi, the painter who spent his whole life in this town painting bottles and jugs on a table, and whose little house lies not far away.
Read the complete MamBo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
MamBo sits at 203 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Badoer.
6. back through Villa Badoer
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Badoer write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Villa Badoer comes up 254 km in. Next is back through Laghetto della Costa.
7. back through Laghetto della Costa
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Laghetto della Costa write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
305 km in you reach back through Laghetto della Costa. Next is back through Villa Trissino.
8. back through Villa Trissino
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Trissino write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Villa Trissino, late in the day. Next is Villa Forni Cerato.
9. Villa Forni Cerato
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Forni Cerato write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 416 km.
Leg by leg
Villa Forni Cerato to Villa Trissino
Villa Forni Cerato → Villa Trissino is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Trissino to Laghetto della Costa
Villa Trissino → Laghetto della Costa is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Laghetto della Costa to Villa Badoer
Laghetto della Costa → Villa Badoer is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Badoer to MamBo
Villa Badoer → MamBo is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
MamBo to back through Villa Badoer
MamBo → back through Villa Badoer is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Villa Badoer to back through Laghetto della Costa
back through Villa Badoer → back through Laghetto della Costa is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Laghetto della Costa to back through Villa Trissino
back through Laghetto della Costa → back through Villa Trissino is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Trissino to Villa Forni Cerato
back through Villa Trissino → Villa Forni Cerato is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.