Visits
Address: Via dei Vescovi 4, Luvigliano di Torreglia (PD)
Opening hours:
From 29 April to 13 June: Friday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm
From 14 June to 15 August: Friday 10am to 10pm, Saturday 10am to 11pm and Sunday 10am to 7pm
From 16 August to 30 September: Wednesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Amidst the greenery of a Veneto countryside that has remained intact, Villa dei Vescovi stands out on a hillock in the Euganean Hills, an important monument in the panorama of Veneto villas, introducing a taste for classicism and Roman Renaissance echoes to these lands, thus anticipating the aesthetics of Palladio.
The conception of the work was entrusted in the early 16th century to the nobleman Alvise Cornaro by the Bishop of Padua, who identified it as the site for an intellectual circle gathered around the value of the landscape and its role in stimulating elevated thoughts and reflections, indispensable elements for governing well. Designed on these ideals by the Veronese architect Falconetto with a rigidly geometric conception, the Villa was the subject of subsequent interventions by Giulio Romano and presents itself as a refined experiment in humanist culture in which architecture, art and landscape play with each other in continuous visual references in the spaces of the loggias and terraces to realise human well-being.
Approaching the Villa, an expanse of vineyards gives way to the verdant geometries of the brolo, then the beauty of the real landscape returns to reflect itself in the idealised views of the loggias and interiors entirely frescoed by the Flemish painter Lambert Sustris.
The villa has been restored to its original splendour after recent renovation work in 2010.
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