Villa Foscari `La Malcontenta`
This villa, which Palladio executed for the brothers Nicola and Alvise Foscari about the end of the 1550s, rises in an isolated block with no agricultural annexes whatsoever, on the edge of the la ...
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Barchessa Valmarana
On one of the most suggestive and scenic bends in the Brenta stands the architectural complex of Villa Valmarana. The main part of the great country house - dating from the 16th century - was, ala ...
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Villa Widmann Foscari
Charming example of 18th-century stately home, frescoed and decorated in a refined rococo style. Refinement is also the distinguishing feature of he first floor with its slender balconies surround ...
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Villa Gradenigo
The Gradenigo is introduced with square shapes like that one the sixteenth-century palaces of the center of Venice. The central balcony in the noble plan still indicates localization of the hall. ...
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Barchessa Alessandri
The Barchessa Alessandri stands beside the same named villa, at Mira, on the left bank of the Brenta Canal. The building is a beautiful example of seventeenth century architecture. Inside it has a ...
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Villa Belvedere - the park and the Castelletto
The landscaped nineteenth century park has a lake, a hillock and a tower that was used as a belvedere. Among park there are the XXV Aprile (ex. Villa Morosini) and Belvedere villas, open to the lo ...
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Villa Foscarini Rossi
The Villa Foscarini Rossi is located along the flow of the river Brenta in Stra, near Venice and Padua. The Foscarini family made build this residence as a mirror of his richness and power; many f ...
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Villa Pisani (la Nazionale)
An imposing and monumental edifice, Villa Pisani could be deemed without doubt queen of the villas on the banks of the Brenta. It represent the heights of 18th century architecture when the splend ...
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Villa Sagredo
The elegant Villa Sagredo whose stones can relate the history of Vigonovo stands in the midst of the great park, nowadays the setting for important ceremonies. A Roman castle in the 4th century, d ...
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Villa Giovanelli
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Villa Contarini
The magniloquent baroque appearance that the Villa Contarini displays today is, in all probability, the result of the seventeenth-century transformation of a villa designed by Andrea Palladio in t ...
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Villa `La Rotonda` (Villa Almerico)
La Rotonda is situated atop a hill in suburban Vicenza. Its four facades look out upon cultivated fields on three sides and a wooded slope on the fourth. The central dome, one of Palladio's most ...
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Villa Barbaro
Villa Barbaro, located in the village of Maser adjacent to the famous hilltown of Asolo, was built for Daniele Barbaro, Patriarch of Aquileia, and his brother Marc'antonio Barbaro, an ambassador o ...
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