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 146 km round trip from Montebello Vicentino - roughly 2 h 47 in the saddle. On the way it passes Villa Trissino, Villa Godi Malinverni, Villa Valmarana Zen and back through 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 Trissino.
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.
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Villa Trissino comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Godi Malinverni. Next is Villa Valmarana Zen.
Not every Palladian villa sits on a hill with a view. Villa Valmarana at Lisiera lies on the flat Vicentine plain east of the city, among fields of maize and soy, irrigation ditches and poplar rows, and it was built for a family whose wealth came from the land itself. Palladio designed it in the middle of the sixteenth century, and it belongs to the family of villas around Vicenza that UNESCO lists together with his town palaces. The house follows his idea of a working farm dressed as a Roman temple: a central block with a portico, flanked by long service wings, the barchesse, that once held grain, tools and animals.
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Villa Valmarana Zen, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Godi Malinverni.
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back through Villa Godi Malinverni sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Trissino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Trissino write-up.
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back through Villa Trissino comes up about 126 km into the recorded legs.
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.
Villa Trissino closes the day.
Villa Trissino → Villa Trissino is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Trissino → Villa Godi Malinverni is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Valmarana Zen is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Valmarana Zen → back through Villa Godi Malinverni is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Godi Malinverni → back through Villa Trissino is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Trissino → Villa Trissino is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.