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 197 km round trip from Quinto Vicentino - roughly 4 h 03 in the saddle. It goes by way of Villa Godi Malinverni, Villa Caldogno, Villa Piovene and Villa Angarano. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Quinto Vicentino is a quiet farming town on the flat plain just north-east of Vicenza, and its town hall happens to be a villa by Andrea Palladio. Villa Thiene was commissioned in the sixteenth century by the brothers Marcantonio and Adriano Thiene, members of one of the most powerful families in Vicenza, and Palladio drew up a grand design for it with courtyards and wings that would have spread across the fields. Only part of that plan was ever built. What stands today is a solid, rather austere block, and the council offices are inside it, which gives the place a pleasingly everyday feeling.
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Villa Thiene 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 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Caldogno.
Villa Caldogno is one of the quieter Palladian villas, standing in a park on the edge of the town of the same name, a few kilometres north of Vicenza. Andrea Palladio designed it in the mid-sixteenth century for the Caldogno family, and it shows his early style: a compact, symmetrical block with a triple-arched loggia in the centre, a pediment above, and no unnecessary decoration. Inside, the main hall and rooms are covered with frescoes by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo and Giovanni Battista Zelotti, depicting scenes of country life, banquets, games and love, painted with charm and humour. Like the other villas of the Veneto, it belongs to the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas.
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about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Caldogno. Next is Villa Piovene.
Palladio designed villas the way other architects write poetry, with proportion, rhythm and an ear for the landscape, and Villa Piovene at Lugo di Vicenza is one of his early ones. It stands on a slope at the foot of the Venetian pre-Alps, north of Vicenza, a stern box of pale stone fronted by a tall flight of steps and a temple-like portico of Ionic columns. The house was meant to be seen from below, rising out of the garden like a small temple, and the effect is of calm authority. Palladio is said to have designed it in the 1540s for the Piovene family, who were wealthy merchants and landowners.
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Villa Piovene, about halfway. 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 sits at 88 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Piovene.
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back through Villa Piovene comes up about 128 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Caldogno.
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about 148 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Caldogno. Next is back through Villa Godi Malinverni.
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Read the complete Villa Godi Malinverni write-up.
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back through Villa Godi Malinverni, late in the day. Next is Villa Thiene.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Thiene write-up.
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The route ends here after 197 km.
Villa Thiene → Villa Godi Malinverni is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Caldogno is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Caldogno → Villa Piovene is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Piovene → Villa Angarano is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → back through Villa Piovene is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Piovene → back through Villa Caldogno is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Caldogno → back through Villa Godi Malinverni is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Thiene is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.