The road turns up at the northern edge of Semonzo and is already at 8% within a few hundred metres, no run-in, no warm-up. Twelve hairpins come in the first five kilometres, part of twenty-eight on the way to the top, and most of the lower half sits under heavy tree cover, so you climb in green shade with the Venetian plain falling away behind you at every turn. It holds 8–9% for about nine kilometres, eases briefly around the Campo Croce shelf, then bites again above 10% in the closing kilometres, with ramps to 14%. Near the top, five other roads up the mountain, from Fietta, Possagno, Cavaso del Tomba, Pederobba and Alano, merge into yours for the final three kilometres. The summit is the Sacrario Militare, the terraced military ossuary holding 22,910 First World War dead, with its museum alongside, and Rifugio Bassano next to it serves Venetian food to 250 people at a sitting; on a clear day you can pick out the Venetian lagoon to the southeast and the Dolomites to the north.