The villa Nani Mocenigo (later also called "Villa Bertetti" because of the new property) is the most important historical and artistic monument in the municipality of Canda (Rovigo), built by the Venetian Nani nobles starting from 1580 and completed (the oldest body ) in 1584, probably under the direction of the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi, a pupil of Palladio, although there are those who attribute it to the architect Baldassare Longhena. In the seventeenth century it was enlarged towards the south with the construction of the large facade of evident scenographic impact and other extensions.
Two other buildings of the same name stand respectively in Oriago and Monselice. The whole of Polesine was the domain of the Republic of Venice from 1489 to 1797, despite repeated wars with the Ferrara neighbors and also with the Mantuan people. For its territorial position, slightly concave and for the position of land between the two large rivers Adige and Po, in addition to the smaller Tartaro-Canalbianco and Fratta, it was an area subject to imposing, disastrous and repeated floods of both the Adige and the Po.
Such floods were sometimes provoked and used as a weapon by one army against another in the 16th century. When the Serenissima acquired it definitively, the Polesine was a borderland, unproductive and unsettled by the permanence for more than a decade on the part today called "Alto Polesine" (excluding the urban centers of Lendinara and Badia Polesine) of a flood caused by war reasons, and therefore practically depopulated.
Villa Nani Mocenigo
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