Villa Loredan Valier Perocco di Meduna stands at Vascon, a hamlet of Carbonera in the countryside north-east of Treviso. The property goes back to the sixteenth century, but the house took its present form between the end of the seventeenth and the first decades of the eighteenth: a monumental main block, two symmetrical porticoed barchesse, and an oratory. It is a private residence and it is not open to casual visitors.
At a glance
- Type
- Venetian country villa with barchesse, oratory and historic park
- Period
- Sixteenth-century origins; present form late seventeenth to early eighteenth century
- Location
- Via Valier 28, Vascon, Carbonera (Treviso), Veneto, Italy
- Coordinates
- 45.7238° N, 12.2984° E
- Access
- Private residence; by arrangement only
The house
The villa was given its baroque shape by Antonio Loredan and his brother Alvise. What they built is the classic arrangement of the Venetian mainland: a tall central block for the family, flanked by two porticoed barchesse of equal length, the working buildings where the harvest and the carts were kept. The oratory completes the group. The symmetry is the point. A Venetian villa is not a castle and not a palace; it is a farm with a drawing room at the centre, and the barchesse are what makes it one.
Inside
The central hall is frescoed by Venetian and Emilian masters. Mixed workshops of that kind were normal on the terraferma: a family that could not commission a Tiepolo brought in painters who had trained in Venice and in Bologna, and the result is a local baroque with two accents in it.
The name itself carries a good deal of Venice. Three doges of the Republic were called Loredan: Leonardo, Pietro and Francesco.
The park
Behind the house the park is crossed by the spring water of the Mignagola, one of the resurgence streams that rise in this belt of the Veneto plain where the gravel of the high plain gives way to clay. Among the trees stands a set of six allegorical statues attributed to Alvise Tagliapietra, a Venetian sculptor of the late baroque. Six is unusual. Garden sculpture of this kind was normally dispersed or sold off in the nineteenth century, and a complete cycle still in place is rarer than the house around it.
Today
The villa is lived in, not museum-kept. It is used for private events, receptions and corporate meetings, which is how a good many Venetian villas now pay for their own roofs. Anyone wanting to see it writes first: there are no opening hours.
Getting there
Vascon is a hamlet of Carbonera, about seven kilometres north-east of Treviso. The nearest station is Treviso Centrale, and from there the villa is a short drive.
Sources & resources
- Villa Loredan Valier Perocco di Meduna, official site: history, rooms and contacts (read 31 October 2026)
- OpenStreetMap, Villa Valier-Loredan-Perocco, Via Valier, Vascon di Carbonera (read 31 October 2026)
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