Villa Emo

Villa Emo is a Venetian villa built near Fanzolo, in Vedelago, in the province of Treviso, by the architect Andrea Palladio. The work, probably built starting from 1558-1559, was commissioned by the Emo family of Venice, a family whose availability remained until 2004.

It is one of the most complete Palladian villas, built when Palladio had been building similar buildings for twenty years. In the design of the villa, the same mathematical proportions were used, both in elevation and in the dimensions of the rooms, employed by Palladio for the rest of his oeuvre. Since 1996 it has been included by UNESCO in the list of world heritage sites, together with the other Palladian villas in the Veneto region and in Vicenza the "city of Palladio".

The villa is framed by two long barns with columns that originally housed the structures for agricultural activities, according to a production structure project similar to that of Villa Badoer and most of the Palladian villa projects. The entrance is at the end of a long path paved with large squared stones.

The exteriors are essential, devoid of decorations, while the interiors are richly decorated with frescoes by Giovanni Battista Zelotti, author of similar works in other Palladian villas.

 

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Map: Villa Emo