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 113 km to Monticello Conte Otto; allow about 2 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of Villa Godi Malinverni, Villa Angarano and back through Villa Godi Malinverni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Angarano. Next is back through Villa Godi Malinverni.
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Read the complete Villa Godi Malinverni write-up.
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back through Villa Godi Malinverni, late in the day. Next is Villa Valmarana Zen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Valmarana Zen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villa Valmarana Zen. That is the ride.
Villa Valmarana Zen → Villa Godi Malinverni is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Angarano is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → back through Villa Godi Malinverni is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Godi Malinverni → Villa Valmarana Zen is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.