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 Monticello Conte Otto it runs 174 km to Monticello Conte Otto; allow about 3 h 58 of riding. On the way it passes Villa Angarano, Villa Barbaro, Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and back through Villa Barbaro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Palladio had a way of making a house look like a temple, and his clients were happy to pay for it. Andrea Palladio, born in Padua in 1508 and trained in Vicenza as a stonemason, designed dozens of villas for the landowners of the Veneto, using the proportions of ancient Rome to give their country houses a sense of order and dignity. The Villa Valmarana, at Monticello Conte Otto, just north of Vicenza, dates from the middle of the sixteenth century and is one of the buildings that UNESCO lists with the city of Vicenza and the Palladian villas of the Veneto. It stands in a field, with a pedimented front and neat flanks, and the loggia is the sort of space that makes you want to sit down and read.
Read the complete Villa Valmarana Bressan write-up.
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Villa Valmarana Bressan 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.
Read the complete Villa Angarano write-up.
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Villa Angarano comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Barbaro.
At the foot of the Asolo hills, near the village of Maser, a long, golden villa looks out over the plain with the mountains behind it. Villa Barbaro was designed by Andrea Palladio in the 1550s for the brothers Daniele and Marcantonio Barbaro, cultivated Venetian patricians, and it is one of his most perfect works, combining a central house like a temple with long arcaded wings for farm buildings. Inside, the rooms are covered with frescoes by Paolo Veronese, among the finest of the Venetian Renaissance: painted landscapes, mythological figures and trompe l'oeil doors with servants peeping through, a game of illusion that still surprises visitors. Behind the villa, a nymphaeum with statues and a pool sits against the hillside, and nearby stands the Tempietto, a small round church also designed by Palladio. The villa is part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and it remains a working estate producing wine.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Barbaro. Next is Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
These are not soft, rolling wine hills. Between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, the foothills of the Pre-Alps rise in steep hogback ridges, sharp crests of rock running east to west, with vines clinging to slopes so steep that much of the work is still done by hand. Grass-covered terraces called ciglioni hold the soil in place, and the result is a patchwork of vines, woods and small villages that UNESCO listed in 2019.
Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
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Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Barbaro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Barbaro write-up.
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back through Villa Barbaro sits at 121 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Angarano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Angarano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Villa Angarano comes up about 146 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Valmarana Bressan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Valmarana Bressan write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Villa Valmarana Bressan closes the day.
Villa Valmarana Bressan → Villa Angarano is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → Villa Barbaro is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Barbaro → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → back through Villa Barbaro is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Barbaro → back through Villa Angarano is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Angarano → Villa Valmarana Bressan is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.