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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306 km from Montebello Vicentino to Montebello Vicentino, about 4 h 20 of riding. On the way it passes Villa Angarano, Villa Foscari and back through Villa Angarano. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
A Palladio villa that was never finished can be more interesting than one that was. At Meledo, a hamlet in the municipality of Sarego south of Vicenza, Andrea Palladio drew up grand plans for the Trissino brothers in the mid-sixteenth century: a central block topped by a dome, with long curved colonnades stretching out like arms toward the river. Only a fragment was built, and what you see today is a modest farm building and some remains incorporated into later structures. Yet the design, published in Palladio's Four Books of Architecture, became one of his most influential, and the site is part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
Read the complete Villa Trissino write-up.
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Villa Trissino is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Foscari.
Locals call it La Malcontenta, the unhappy woman, and the stories about who she was are better than any of them can prove. The legend says a Foscari wife was banished here for her bad behaviour in Venice; the duller truth is that the name probably came from the area or a nearby canal long before the villa existed. Either way, the house Andrea Palladio built for the brothers Nicolò and Alvise Foscari around 1560 is one of his masterpieces, a temple-fronted block raised on a high base above the Brenta canal, looking out over the water like a Roman villa that had wandered down to the lagoon. It forms part of the UNESCO listing of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
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about 153 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Foscari. Next is back through Villa Angarano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Angarano write-up.
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back through Villa Angarano, 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 → Villa Angarano is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → Villa Foscari is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Villa Foscari → back through Villa Angarano is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Villa Angarano → Villa Trissino is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.