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 Noventa Vicentina it runs 378 km to Noventa Vicentina; allow about 6 h 40 of riding. The stops in between: Oratory of St.Michael, Villa Cornaro, Villa Angarano and Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
In the countryside south of the Berici Hills, near the village of Agugliaro, Villa Saraceno is one of the simplest and most elegant of Andrea Palladio's villas, built in the mid-sixteenth century for Biagio Saraceno, a Vicentine nobleman. It is a compact building with a classical portico of arches and a triangular pediment, set among farmland, and it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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Villa Saraceno is where the day begins. Next is Oratory of St.Michael, 42 km on.
In the old centre of Padua, near the medieval tower that later became an astronomical observatory, a small oratory hides one of the city's quieter treasures. The Oratory of St Michael contains frescoes painted by Jacopo da Verona at the end of the fourteenth century, scenes from the life of the Virgin populated with recognisable citizens of Padua dressed in the fashions of the day. It is one of eight sites inscribed in 2021 as Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles, the group that also includes Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel.
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Oratory of St.Michael comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Cornaro.
Piombino Dese is a quiet village on the flat plain between Padua and Treviso, the kind of place you pass through on the way to somewhere else. Stop on the main road, though, and look at the house set back behind its lawn. Villa Cornaro was designed by Andrea Palladio in the early 1550s for Giorgio Cornaro, a member of one of the grandest Venetian families, and its central portico rises in two storeys of columns, one loggia stacked on another like a temple front on a temple front. On the garden side the same double loggia faces a long lawn. It is one of the most copied houses in architectural history, and echoes of it can be seen in country houses across England and in mansions of the American South. The villa is part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and it opens to visitors on certain days in the warmer months.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Cornaro. 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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Villa Angarano, about halfway. 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 sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Angarano.
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back through Villa Angarano comes up about 275 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Cornaro.
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about 311 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Cornaro. Next is back through Oratory of St.Michael, 42 km on.
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back through Oratory of St.Michael, late in the day. Next is Villa Saraceno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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The route ends here after 378 km.
Villa Saraceno → Oratory of St.Michael is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oratory of St.Michael → Villa Cornaro is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Cornaro → Villa Angarano is 36 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 → 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 Villa Cornaro is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Cornaro → back through Oratory of St.Michael is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oratory of St.Michael → Villa Saraceno is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.