CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Montebello Vicentino it runs 185 km to Montebello Vicentino; allow about 3 h of riding. On the way it passes Villa Almerico Capra, Villa Forni Cerato, City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o and Villa Godi Malinverni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
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Villa Trissino is where the day begins. Next is Villa Almerico Capra.
The Villa Almerico Capra, known as La Rotonda, stands on a small hill above Vicenza, and it is one of the most copied buildings in the history of architecture. Andrea Palladio began it in the 1560s for a retired papal official, Paolo Almerico, who wanted a place for entertaining and for looking at the view rather than for farming. The plan is a perfect square, with a round hall under a dome at the centre, and each of the four sides has an identical portico with Ionic columns and a flight of steps, so that the house presents the same face to every direction. The idea was that the building should be an ornament to the landscape, and the landscape an ornament to the house.
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Villa Almerico Capra comes up 22 km in. Next is Villa Forni Cerato.
Not every Palladian villa is a palace. Villa Forni Cerato, in Montecchio Precalcino north of Vicenza, is a small, modest building, a cube with a simple loggia and pediment, built in the mid-sixteenth century for Girolamo Forni, a timber merchant and amateur painter. Its attribution to Palladio has been debated, but it is included in the UNESCO-listed City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and its compact harmony shows how Palladio's ideas worked even at a small scale. It is privately owned and not always open, so check before planning a visit.
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44 km in you reach Villa Forni Cerato. Next is City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o.
Andrea Palladio was a stonemason from Padua who became the most copied architect in history, and Vicenza is where he did it. Walk the main street, Corso Palladio, and you are moving through his workshop: palace after palace designed for the local nobility in the sixteenth century, with columns, pediments and proportions that ended up on English country houses, American plantation homes and Washington government buildings. The city and the villas scattered across the surrounding countryside were listed together by UNESCO for exactly that reason.
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City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o, about halfway. 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 sits at 87 km, about halfway. Next is back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o.
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back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o comes up 109 km in. Next is back through Villa Forni Cerato.
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131 km in you reach back through Villa Forni Cerato. Next is back through Villa Almerico Capra.
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back through Villa Almerico Capra, late in the day. Next is Villa Trissino.
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The route ends here after 185 km.
Villa Trissino → Villa Almerico Capra is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Almerico Capra → Villa Forni Cerato is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Forni Cerato → City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o → Villa Godi Malinverni is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas o → back through Villa Forni Cerato is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Forni Cerato → back through Villa Almerico Capra is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Almerico Capra → Villa Trissino is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.