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 339 km round trip from Monticello Conte Otto - roughly 4 h 41 in the saddle. The stops in between: 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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.
Read the complete City of Verona write-up.
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City of Verona comes up about 74 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.
Read the complete Molina di Ledro write-up.
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about 172 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through City of Verona, late in the day. 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.
Back at Villa Valmarana Bressan. That is the ride.
Villa Valmarana Bressan → City of Verona is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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 Valmarana Bressan is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.