CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 458 km round trip from Lonigo - roughly 7 h 55 in the saddle. On the way it passes City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o, Villa Angarano, Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o.
Andrea Palladio was a stonemason from Padua who became the most copied architect in history, and Vicenza is where he did it. Walk the main street, Corso Palladio, and you are moving through his workshop: palace after palace designed for the local nobility in the sixteenth century, with columns, pediments and proportions that ended up on English country houses, American plantation homes and Washington government buildings. The city and the villas scattered across the surrounding countryside were listed together by UNESCO for exactly that reason.
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City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Angarano.
Bassano del Grappa sits where the river Brenta leaves the mountains and spreads onto the Venetian plain, and its symbol is a covered wooden bridge, the Ponte Vecchio, designed by Palladio in the sixteenth century and rebuilt several times since after floods and wars. On the right bank of the river, just outside the town, stands Villa Angarano, a country house whose two long colonnaded wings were designed by Palladio, while the central residence was built later, in a different style, by the Venetian architect Baldassare Longhena. The villa is still a working wine estate and belongs to the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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about 80 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Angarano. 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.
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Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va, about halfway. Next is Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti.
The Val di San Lucano is a deep, shadowed gash in the southern Dolomites, and the point here lies near Rivamonte and Voltago, in the Agordino, the upper valley of the Cordevole river. The big, pale walls on either side belong to the Pale di San Martino group, one of the nine sets of mountains included in the Dolomites World Heritage listing of 2009, and their sheer rock faces rise more than a thousand metres above the narrow valley floor.
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Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti sits at 183 km, about halfway. Next is back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va comes up about 302 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Angarano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Angarano write-up.
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about 388 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Angarano. Next is back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o write-up.
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back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o, late in the day. Next is Villa Pisani Ferri.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Pisani Ferri write-up.
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The route ends here after 458 km.
Villa Pisani Ferri → City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o → Villa Angarano is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti → back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → back through Villa Angarano is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Angarano → back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o → Villa Pisani Ferri is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.