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 Vicenza it runs 317 km to Vicenza; allow about 4 h 24 of riding. 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. The line favours views over speed.
Gian Giorgio Trissino was a poet, diplomat and amateur architect, and in the 1530s he had a clever idea. He saw a young stonemason working at his villa in Cricoli, on the edge of Vicenza, and decided to turn him into an architect. He gave the man a classical education, took him to Rome to study the ruins, and gave him a new name, Palladio, after Pallas Athena and the angel in his own epic poem. The stonemason was Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, and he became the most influential architect in the history of the West. The villa at Cricoli, where it all began, is a modest building of the early sixteenth century with a loggia and a tall, plain front.
Read the complete Villa Trissino write-up.
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Villa Trissino 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.
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City of Verona comes up about 60 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.
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about 158 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 Trissino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Trissino write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa Trissino. That is the ride.
Villa Trissino → City of Verona is 60 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 Trissino is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.