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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A 328 km round trip from Noventa Vicentina - roughly 4 h 43 in the saddle. On the way it passes City of Verona, Molina di Ledro and back through City of Verona. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Villa Saraceno write-up.
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Villa Saraceno is where the day begins. Next is City of Verona.
Verona is where the north of Italy starts to feel like the south, and where history piles up in layers so thick that you trip over them. The Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, still dominates Piazza Bra and still hosts opera in summer, with tens of thousands of people sitting on stone steps two thousand years old. The Adige river swings through town in a double bend, crossed by bridges including the Ponte Pietra, part Roman and rebuilt after the Germans blew it up in 1945. And of course there is Juliet's balcony, which was added to a medieval house in the twentieth century to satisfy visitors searching for the Shakespeare story; people queue to rub the breast of her bronze statue for luck.
Read the complete City of Verona write-up.
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City of Verona comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. Next is Molina di Ledro.
In 1929, when the level of Lake Ledro was lowered to feed a hydroelectric plant, thousands of wooden posts emerged from the mud near Molina di Ledro. They were the remains of a Bronze Age pile-dwelling village, inhabited some four thousand years ago, and the finds included pottery, tools, weapons, and a canoe. Molina di Ledro is part of the UNESCO-listed Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and the Museo delle Palafitte, on the lake shore, displays the finds alongside reconstructed huts on stilts.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
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about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach Molina di Ledro. Next is back through City of Verona.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete City of Verona write-up.
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back through City of Verona, late in the day. Next is Villa Saraceno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Saraceno write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa Saraceno. That is the ride.
Villa Saraceno → City of Verona is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City of Verona → Molina di Ledro is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Molina di Ledro → back through City of Verona is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through City of Verona → Villa Saraceno is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.