VENETIAN VILLAS - VENETO VILLAS

Villas of the Veneto – Upper Polesine

Villa Badoer in Fratta

It was planned between 1566 and 1570 by Andrea Palladio for the family Badoer. In the centre there is the master’s residence: it is a parallelepiped plan building ennobled by a central refined loggia with Ionic columns, which is enclosed in the structure. On the sides of the villa there are two barchesse with an arcade composed of Doric columns. (It can be visited).

 

Villa Mocenigo Manin Avezzù in Fratta

It is a villa dating back to 1500s, by an anonymous architect, following the palladian forms with some variations: the use of the Doric order for the pronao columns (Palladio, instead, used the Ionic order). The frescoes remind those of Villa Badoer. (It can be visited on Saturdays afternoon)

In the neighbourhood: Villa Cornoldi (building of 1700s), Villa Campanari ( building of 1700s, now property of the Town Hall), Villa David Franchin (unfinished villa of 1700s) and Villa Oroboni Duò (unfinished villa of 1600s).

Villa Nani Mocenigoin Canda

It is a villa of 1584 attributed to Vincenzo Scamozzi and adjusted in 1700s. Its façade was almost completely remade. Inside the building there are some frescoes of the thirteenth century which are ascribed to Mengozzi Colonna.

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