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 Ceggia it runs 293 km to Ceggia; allow about 5 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Venice and its Lagoon, Villa Cornaro, Villa Barbaro and Villa Angarano. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 51 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Andrea Palladio designed Villa Zeno at Cessalto in the middle of the sixteenth century, and it stands among the flat fields of the lower Piave plain, about five kilometres from the little town of Ceggia and not far from the Livenza river. It is one of the villas of the Veneto that were collectively inscribed on the World Heritage list, and it is quite different from the grand Palladian pieces near Vicenza: an agricultural house, plain and practical, with a broad central block and a pair of long service wings.
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Villa Zeno is where the day begins. Next is Venice and its Lagoon.
Venice is the only great city in Europe where your motorcycle is entirely useless. The road ends at Piazzale Roma, at the end of a long bridge across the lagoon, and from there on, everything happens on foot or by boat. The city and its lagoon are listed by UNESCO as a whole, a recognition that the islands, the canals, the salt marshes and the fishing villages form a single living system, shaped by over a thousand years of human effort to keep the sea out and the city afloat.
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Venice and its Lagoon comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa Cornaro.
Piombino Dese is a quiet village on the flat plain between Padua and Treviso, the kind of place you pass through on the way to somewhere else. Stop on the main road, though, and look at the house set back behind its lawn. Villa Cornaro was designed by Andrea Palladio in the early 1550s for Giorgio Cornaro, a member of one of the grandest Venetian families, and its central portico rises in two storeys of columns, one loggia stacked on another like a temple front on a temple front. On the garden side the same double loggia faces a long lawn. It is one of the most copied houses in architectural history, and echoes of it can be seen in country houses across England and in mansions of the American South. The villa is part of the UNESCO site of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, and it opens to visitors on certain days in the warmer months.
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about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa Cornaro. 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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Villa Barbaro, about halfway. 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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Villa Angarano sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through Villa Barbaro.
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back through Villa Barbaro comes up about 171 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Villa Cornaro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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about 200 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Villa Cornaro. Next is back through Venice and its Lagoon.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Venice and its Lagoon, late in the day. Next is Villa Zeno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Zeno write-up.
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The route ends here after 293 km.
Villa Zeno → Venice and its Lagoon is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Venice and its Lagoon → Villa Cornaro is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Cornaro → Villa Barbaro is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Barbaro → Villa Angarano is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Angarano → back through Villa Barbaro is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Barbaro → back through Villa Cornaro is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Cornaro → back through Venice and its Lagoon is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Venice and its Lagoon → Villa Zeno is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.