Why this ride
From Sandrigo it runs 72 km to Sandrigo; allow about 1 h 31 of riding. The stops in between: City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o, Villa Trissino and back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Villa Forni Cerato and Villa Trissino
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 72 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 31
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
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 City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o.
2. City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o
Andrea Palladio was a stonemason from Padua who became the most copied architect in history, and Vicenza is where he did it. Walk the main street, Corso Palladio, and you are moving through his workshop: palace after palace designed for the local nobility in the sixteenth century, with columns, pediments and proportions that ended up on English country houses, American plantation homes and Washington government buildings. The city and the villas scattered across the surrounding countryside were listed together by UNESCO for exactly that reason.
Read the complete City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Trissino.
3. 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
about 37 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Trissino. Next is back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o.
4. back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o, late in the day. Next is Villa Forni Cerato.
5. 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
Back at Villa Forni Cerato. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Villa Forni Cerato to City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o
Villa Forni Cerato → City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o to Villa Trissino
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o → Villa Trissino is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Trissino to back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o
Villa Trissino → back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o to Villa Forni Cerato
back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o → Villa Forni Cerato is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.