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 Lonigo it runs 326 km to Lonigo; allow about 4 h 34 of riding. The stops in between: Villa Godi Malinverni, Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and back through Villa Godi Malinverni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Andrea Palladio was still a young architect, not long out of his training as a stonemason, when the Pisani brothers, members of a powerful Venetian family, asked him to design a country house at Bagnolo, near Lonigo, in the late 1530s or early 1540s. The result, now known as Villa Pisani Ferri, is one of his early villas, a solid, symmetrical house with a grand central hall and a facade facing the river, part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. Visits depend on the owners' arrangements, so check ahead if you hope to go inside.
Read the complete Villa Pisani Ferri write-up.
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Villa Pisani Ferri is where the day begins. Next is Villa Godi Malinverni.
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 comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
These are not soft, rolling wine hills. Between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, the foothills of the Pre-Alps rise in steep hogback ridges, sharp crests of rock running east to west, with vines clinging to slopes so steep that much of the work is still done by hand. Grass-covered terraces called ciglioni hold the soil in place, and the result is a patchwork of vines, woods and small villages that UNESCO listed in 2019.
Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
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about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va. Next is back through 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 through Villa Godi Malinverni, late in the day. Next is Villa Pisani Ferri.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Pisani Ferri write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa Pisani Ferri. That is the ride.
Villa Pisani Ferri → Villa Godi Malinverni is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → back through Villa Godi Malinverni is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Pisani Ferri is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.