The Riviera del Brenta is a set of districts and green spots emerged along the ancient course of a river linking Padova to Venice. Ideal extension of Venice onto the mainland, almost neighborhood of Venice, the Riviera of the Brenta lived from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century a golden age which turned it into a holiday resort favored the rich Venetian nobles.
On the banks of the river have built dozens and dozens of villas designed and painted by masters of Italian art, visited by artists, popes, kings, men of culture, envied for their beauty, experienced as country houses in which to celebrate the rite parades waters, sumptuous dinners, parties lasted until dawn. The villas were becoming more refined and jewels arose as early as the sixteenth century Villa Foscari, designed by Palladio in Villa Soranzo discontent or externally with frescoes by the brother of Paolo Veronese Fiesso. In the next century multiplied the stands on the water, the gardens populated with busts and Baroque decorations like Villa Morosini of Mirano. In the eighteenth century the spaces are dilated through skilful play was prospective and the triumph of the Villa Pisani at Stra, true ducal palace on the mainland. Full of the glories of this civilization the Riviera del Brenta is still present with the flower gardens of his aristocratic residence, with the villas open to the public glare acquei intercepted by the statues, the willows bordering the stream.
To make the outline of this heritage, a people which preserves the traditional habit of hospitality, the cult of gastronomy fish, dedication to craftsmanship, especially footwear. We should not forget the churches full of valuable paintings, or the simple, interesting examples of architecture minor. Inside the villas are hidden, then, whole painting cycles. The mythological stories left by Zelotti the Villa Foscari, continental buffet or B. De Villa Querini PITATI in Mira Porte. The glories of noble families from the Angel at Villa Widmann or painted by Tiepolo at the Villa Pisani in Stra. The list could go on with the altars Sansovino groups marble, carved in the parks of Bonazza, wooden statues of Brustolon, bodies Callido, antique furniture still kept in houses or in antique shops: the Riviera del Brenta is always a discovery.
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