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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A 90 km round trip from Lugo di Vicenza - roughly 1 h 47 in the saddle. It goes by way of Villa Caldogno, Villa Chiericati and back through Villa Caldogno. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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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Villa Godi Malinverni is where the day begins. Next is Villa Caldogno.
Villa Caldogno is one of the quieter Palladian villas, standing in a park on the edge of the town of the same name, a few kilometres north of Vicenza. Andrea Palladio designed it in the mid-sixteenth century for the Caldogno family, and it shows his early style: a compact, symmetrical block with a triple-arched loggia in the centre, a pediment above, and no unnecessary decoration. Inside, the main hall and rooms are covered with frescoes by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo and Giovanni Battista Zelotti, depicting scenes of country life, banquets, games and love, painted with charm and humour. Like the other villas of the Veneto, it belongs to the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas.
Read the complete Villa Caldogno write-up.
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Villa Caldogno comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Chiericati.
Villa Chiericati stands in the flat countryside east of Vicenza, at Vancimuglio near Grumolo delle Abbadesse, a cube of pale plaster with a deep, columned portico that looks as if a Roman temple has been grafted onto a farmhouse. That is precisely what Palladio intended. Designed in the 1550s for Giovanni Chiericati, it is often cited as one of the first villas in which he gave the main façade a full temple front, an idea he would repeat, refine and make famous, and which architects copied for centuries afterwards, from English country houses to the American South. Like the other Palladian villas of the Veneto, it is part of the UNESCO site that includes the city of Vicenza.
Read the complete Villa Chiericati write-up.
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about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Chiericati. Next is back through Villa Caldogno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Caldogno write-up.
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back through Villa Caldogno, late in the day. Next is Villa Godi Malinverni.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Godi Malinverni write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa Godi Malinverni. That is the ride.
Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Caldogno is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Caldogno → Villa Chiericati is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Chiericati → back through Villa Caldogno is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Caldogno → Villa Godi Malinverni is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.