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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301 km from Lugo di Vicenza to Lugo di Vicenza, about 5 h 41 of riding. On the way it passes Villa Chiericati, Villa Pojana, Tombola and Villa Saraceno. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
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Villa Godi Malinverni is where the day begins. 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.
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Villa Chiericati comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Pojana.
Andrea Palladio could make a farmhouse look like a temple, and at Villa Pojana he did it with remarkable restraint. Built in the mid-sixteenth century for Bonifacio Pojana, a nobleman with military ambitions, the villa stands in the village of Poiana Maggiore in the flat country south of Vicenza. Its facade is almost bare: a great arched entrance framed by a Serlian motif with round windows, a pediment above, smooth plaster walls. The interior has frescoes by artists of the time. Like other Palladian villas of the Veneto, it counts as one component of UNESCO's inscription of the city of Vicenza and the villas around it.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Pojana. Next is Tombola.
In the flat, fertile plain south of Verona, near the town of Cerea, a low rise in the fields called Tombola hides the remains of a Bronze Age settlement. The site is listed among the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it belongs to a group of wetland villages that once stood among the marshes of the Valli Grandi Veronesi, a large area of wetland that was drained and reclaimed over the centuries.
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Tombola, about halfway. Next is Villa Saraceno.
In the countryside south of the Berici Hills, near the village of Agugliaro, Villa Saraceno is one of the simplest and most elegant of Andrea Palladio's villas, built in the mid-sixteenth century for Biagio Saraceno, a Vicentine nobleman. It is a compact building with a classical portico of arches and a triangular pediment, set among farmland, and it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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Villa Saraceno sits at 151 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tombola.
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back through Tombola comes up about 191 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Pojana.
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about 224 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Pojana. Next is back through Villa Chiericati.
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back through Villa Chiericati, late in the day. Next is Villa Godi Malinverni.
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The route ends here after 301 km.
Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Chiericati is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Chiericati → Villa Pojana is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Pojana → Tombola is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tombola → Villa Saraceno is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Saraceno → back through Tombola is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tombola → back through Villa Pojana is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Pojana → back through Villa Chiericati is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Chiericati → Villa Godi Malinverni is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.