In the 1500 the Venetian Republic was
ready to exploit to the full the agricultural potential of its mainland
territories. The government offered substantial subsidies for reclamation
of marshlands and the aristocracy began to build beautiful villas on their
country estates. Palladio became the ideal architect who knew how to build
cheaply and quickly and was also thoroughly versed in the newly fashionable
architectural vocabulary of ancient and contemporary Roman buildings. He
was not the only great architect employed on the Venetian mainland, but
he was the most prolific. So elegantly did his villas combine the gentlemanly
and the useful, that their style became the model for both Britain and
America houses for the next three centuries.
Palladian Villas were intended to
express the ideals of reason, humanity and civilisation in Renaissance
life, and to provide practical settings from which the sophisticated
merchants from Venice could exercise their privileges as landowners and
their responsibilities as farmers – provisioning
the cities where they too spent much of their lives.
More than 2000 country residences were built
throughout the Veneto and this phenomenon became known as the Civilization of the Villas.
Our tour will take you to visit some of the most outstanding county houses along
the banks of the Brenta river, or, if you have a full day to spend for
this tour, we can reach the hills around the town of Treviso to enjoy the
Palladian Villa Emo and Villa Maser.
Our tour will take you to visit some of the most outstanding
country houses following the celebrated wine routes of the Veneto Region,
stopping here and there for food and wine tasting, thus pleasing
both your minds and your palates.
We’ll have lunch in a typical Veneto restaurant.
DURATION: 8 hours
ADMISSIONS: Vary according to the itinerary
chosen and the monuments visited
TOUR PRICE:
Private tour for up to 4 people: 900,00 euros + admission fees
Group rate on request
THE PRICE INCLUDES: the service of a certified tour
guide and the hiring of private limousine
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