Today’s ride was a loop around this area. It involved some climbing through the hills here but the views were our reward.
Our first stop was Asolo, just down the road from where we were staying. This town is considered a paradise by some and many famous writers and artists lived or visited there. Robert Browning and his wife Elizabeth Barrett, both poets, lived there and his final work was titled Asolando.
We stopped and looked in a few of the sites:the Asolo duomo with famous paintings by Lorenzo Lotto and Jacopo da Ponte inside, the castle on the hill above Asolo, a classical temple in the style of the Parthenon (Tempio Canoviano), and the Villa Barbera with allegorical frescoes and trompe l’oeil.
Asolo hills from the backside
Fountain in the center of Asolo
Well kept sanctuary in the wall
Pantheon and Parthenon in one temple at Possagno
Look to the skys
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