Re: [CR]Campagnolo Factory - anything to see?

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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:33:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Rafael Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Campagnolo Factory - anything to see?
To: Tom Dalton <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <20050818210405.50883.qmail@web50201.mail.yahoo.com>


Tom, As far as I know, there is no museum - and there are no official tours - but if you're already in Vicenza, it's worth stopping in. You never know what might happen. This was a fair number of years ago, but my wife and I stopped by the Campagnolo factory during our trip through Europe on our tandem. I suppose we were unusual enough taht wwe were granted a partial tour of the premises. (But we were not allowed to take any photographs and we were escorted rather rapidly through the machine shops.) They also gave us a fair number of souveniers such as caps and stickers. By the way, if you're going to Vicenza to study the Palladian architecture and so forth, I recommend taking a break from that "aesthetic" stuff and have a look at the "Ai Nani" villa (the Villa Valmarana). It's full of strange sculptures and frescoes. Details here: http://www.italiantourism.com/villas.html but my recollection is that the all the touristic villas are on the opposite side of town from Campagnolo. Cheers, Fred Rednor - surrounded by really bad architecture in Arlington, Virginia (USA)
>
> If I happen to be in Vicenza, is there anything to see at the
> Campagnolo factory? I hear that tours are pretty much
> forbidden, but is there a museum or anything like that?
>
> Tom Dalton
> Bethlehem, PA

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