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 Mira Taglio it runs 175 km to Mira Taglio; allow about 3 h 49 of riding. On the way it passes Villa Cornaro, Villa Barbaro, Villa Angarano and back through Villa Barbaro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Locals call it La Malcontenta, the unhappy woman, and the stories about who she was are better than any of them can prove. The legend says a Foscari wife was banished here for her bad behaviour in Venice; the duller truth is that the name probably came from the area or a nearby canal long before the villa existed. Either way, the house Andrea Palladio built for the brothers Nicolò and Alvise Foscari around 1560 is one of his masterpieces, a temple-fronted block raised on a high base above the Brenta canal, looking out over the water like a Roman villa that had wandered down to the lagoon. It forms part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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Villa Foscari is where the day begins. Next is Villa Cornaro.
Piombino Dese is a quiet village on the flat plain between Padua and Treviso, the kind of place you pass through on the way to somewhere else. Stop on the main road, though, and look at the house set back behind its lawn. Villa Cornaro was designed by Andrea Palladio in the early 1550s for Giorgio Cornaro, a member of one of the grandest Venetian families, and its central portico rises in two storeys of columns, one loggia stacked on another like a temple front on a temple front. On the garden side the same double loggia faces a long lawn. It is one of the most copied houses in architectural history, and echoes of it can be seen in country houses across England and in mansions of the American South. The villa is part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and it opens to visitors on certain days in the warmer months.
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Villa Cornaro comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Barbaro.
At the foot of the Asolo hills, near the village of Maser, a long, golden villa looks out over the plain with the mountains behind it. Villa Barbaro was designed by Andrea Palladio in the 1550s for the brothers Daniele and Marcantonio Barbaro, cultivated Venetian patricians, and it is one of his most perfect works, combining a central house like a temple with long arcaded wings for farm buildings. Inside, the rooms are covered with frescoes by Paolo Veronese, among the finest of the Venetian Renaissance: painted landscapes, mythological figures and trompe l'oeil doors with servants peeping through, a game of illusion that still surprises visitors. Behind the villa, a nymphaeum with statues and a pool sits against the hillside, and nearby stands the Tempietto, a small round church also designed by Palladio. The villa is part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and it remains a working estate producing wine.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Barbaro. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Barbaro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Barbaro write-up.
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back through Villa Barbaro sits at 121 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Cornaro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Cornaro write-up.
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back through Villa Cornaro comes up about 139 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Foscari.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Foscari write-up.
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Villa Foscari closes the day.
Villa Foscari → Villa Cornaro is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Cornaro → Villa Barbaro is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Barbaro → Villa Angarano is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → back through Villa Barbaro is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Barbaro → back through Villa Cornaro is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Cornaro → Villa Foscari is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.