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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244 km from Lonigo to Lonigo, about 3 h 36 of riding. On the way it passes Villa Godi Malinverni, Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles and back through Villa Godi Malinverni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
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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.
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Villa Godi Malinverni comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles.
Giotto's chapel in Padua is smaller than most people expect, a plain brick hall tucked behind the Arena gardens, and the first surprise is that you are rationed. Visits are timed and short, and groups wait in a climate-controlled room first so that the breath and humidity of too many people do not harm the paint. Then the doors open and the walls turn blue. Around 1305 the banker Enrico Scrovegni commissioned Giotto to cover the whole interior with the lives of Mary and Christ, and what he painted, people with weight, faces with feeling, a sky that behaves like a sky, changed the course of European painting.
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about 124 km into the recorded legs you reach Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles. 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 → Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles → back through Villa Godi Malinverni is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Pisani Ferri is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.