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 Montagnana it runs 191 km to Montagnana; allow about 3 h 58 of riding. On the way it passes Tombola, Mantua and Sabbioneta, Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli and back through Mantua and Sabbioneta. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mantua and Sabbioneta.
Approach Mantua from the north across the causeway and you see why it was so hard to conquer: the city rises from water on three sides, encircled by lakes formed from the river Mincio, its domes and towers reflected in the still surface. For nearly four centuries it belonged to the Gonzaga family, who turned a marshy town into one of the most brilliant courts of the Renaissance, and Mantua is listed by UNESCO together with Sabbioneta, the small ideal city that a branch of the same family built some thirty kilometres away.
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about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Mantua and Sabbioneta. Next is Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli.
South of Lake Garda, the land rises into a series of low hills, the moraines left behind by the glacier that carved the lake. Among them, in a hollow, lies a small heart-shaped lake, and on a ridge above it stands the walled village of Castellaro Lagusello, one of the most charming in Lombardy. The lake and its marshes are a nature reserve, and on its shore, at Fondo Tacoli, archaeologists found the remains of a Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement, part of the UNESCO group of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
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Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli, about halfway. Next is back through Mantua and Sabbioneta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mantua and Sabbioneta write-up.
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back through Mantua and Sabbioneta sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tombola.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tombola write-up.
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back through Tombola comes up about 165 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Pisani.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Pisani write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Villa Pisani closes the day.
Villa Pisani → Tombola is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tombola → Mantua and Sabbioneta is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mantua and Sabbioneta → Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castellaro Lagusello - Fondo Tacoli → back through Mantua and Sabbioneta is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mantua and Sabbioneta → back through Tombola is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tombola → Villa Pisani is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.