{"id":4186,"date":"2020-11-18T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rendez-vous-fantasia.com\/?p=4186\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T11:43:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T10:43:51","slug":"the-brenta-canal-and-the-venetian-villas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rendez-vous-fantasia.com\/en\/the-brenta-canal-and-the-venetian-villas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brenta Canal and the Venetian Villas"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” content_placement=”middle” parallax=”content-moving” parallax_image=”4181″][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”600px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The Brenta Canal and the Venetian villas<\/strong>
\nNavigation from Fusina to Stra<\/strong><\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The Brenta Canal<\/strong>, once used as a communication route between Padua and Venice, is still navigable today and appears among the proposed itineraries with the Houseboat<\/strong>. You will have to test yourself with the passage of locks<\/strong> and swing bridges<\/strong>, but the landscape and the numerous Venetian Villas will reward your efforts.
\nThe Venetian Villas<\/strong> were built as mainland residences of the patricians who lived in the Republic of the Serenissima. The Villas, sumptuous residences, work of famous architects and frescoed by excellent painters, developed between the 15th and 16th centuries the phenomenon of “holidaying”. In the Veneto region there are about 2,000 villas<\/strong> dating back to that historical period, just think that about seventy or so were built right on the banks of the Brenta Canal.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”4172″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

While sailing you can admire a series of imposing facades reflected in the waters of the canal. Choose at least a couple of them, the most important ones, for a visit…the rooms and the parks will make you fly back in time!<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

– Villa Foscari “La Malcontenta”<\/strong>, designed by architect Palladio<\/strong> for the Foscari brothers, one of the most powerful families in the Venetian Republic. It is the only Venetian villa to have almost regal characteristics<\/strong>, unlike all the other Palladian villas. The nickname<\/strong> of Malcontenta<\/strong> seems to derive from a lady of the Foscari house, confined within its walls in solitude to serve a sentence for her licentious conduct, without ever being seen coming out or looking out of the windows.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”4151″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

– Villa Pisani<\/strong>, also known as La Nazionale<\/strong>, is the best known among the Venetian Villas. It was built in 1721 on a project by Gerolamo Frigimelica<\/strong> and Francesco Maria Preti<\/strong> for the noble Venetian family Pisani. Among the various frescoes and paintings you can find the fresco by Giambattista Tiepolo<\/strong> “The Apotheosis of the Family”. The Villa had 114 rooms<\/strong>, in honour of the 114th Doge of the Republic of Venice Alvise Pisani. There are now 168 rooms and they are named after the guest who stayed there. One room in fact takes the name of Napoleon<\/strong>, who was also the owner of the villa for a period of time.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”4133″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Curiosity:<\/h3>\n