CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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188 km from Lugo di Vicenza to Lugo di Vicenza, about 3 h 05 of riding. The stops in between: Villa Valmarana Zen, Villa Trissino, Villa Pisani and back through Villa Trissino. 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.
Palladio designed villas the way other architects write poetry, with proportion, rhythm and an ear for the landscape, and Villa Piovene at Lugo di Vicenza is one of his early ones. It stands on a slope at the foot of the Venetian pre-Alps, north of Vicenza, a stern box of pale stone fronted by a tall flight of steps and a temple-like portico of Ionic columns. The house was meant to be seen from below, rising out of the garden like a small temple, and the effect is of calm authority. Palladio is said to have designed it in the 1540s for the Piovene family, who were wealthy merchants and landowners.
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Villa Piovene is where the day begins. Next is Villa Valmarana Zen.
Not every Palladian villa sits on a hill with a view. Villa Valmarana at Lisiera lies on the flat Vicentine plain east of the city, among fields of maize and soy, irrigation ditches and poplar rows, and it was built for a family whose wealth came from the land itself. Palladio designed it in the middle of the sixteenth century, and it belongs to the family of villas around Vicenza that UNESCO lists together with his town palaces. The house follows his idea of a working farm dressed as a Roman temple: a central block with a portico, flanked by long service wings, the barchesse, that once held grain, tools and animals.
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Villa Valmarana Zen comes up 29 km in. Next is 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.
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58 km in you reach Villa Trissino. Next is Villa Pisani.
Montagnana is one of the best-preserved walled towns in Europe, with its entire ring of medieval brick walls, towers and gates still standing around the old centre, and just outside the eastern gate stands a villa by Andrea Palladio. Villa Pisani at Montagnana, built for Francesco Pisani in the 1550s, is a two-storey palace with a classical façade facing the road, part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. Unlike most of Palladio's country villas, it sits right at the edge of town, more urban palazzo than farmhouse, and its elegant columns make a striking contrast with the rugged walls nearby.
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Villa Pisani, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Trissino.
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Read the complete Villa Trissino write-up.
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back through Villa Trissino sits at 117 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Valmarana Zen.
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back through Villa Valmarana Zen comes up 146 km in. Next is Villa Piovene.
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Read the complete Villa Piovene write-up.
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Villa Piovene closes the day.
Villa Piovene → Villa Valmarana Zen is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Valmarana Zen → Villa Trissino is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Trissino → Villa Pisani is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Pisani → back through Villa Trissino is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Trissino → back through Villa Valmarana Zen is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Valmarana Zen → Villa Piovene is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.