Villa Contarini degli Scrigni, called Vigna Contarena, is a Venetian villa built on a project by Vincenzo Scamozzi and located in the town of Este in the province of Padua. The name "Vigna" seems to be due to the fact that, originally, the villa had a beautiful park with fruit trees and vines, but above all that it was intended by the noble Contarini family for parties during the harvest.
Unlike the villa in Piazzola sul Brenta, intended for official meetings with national and international delegations, the destination of Vigna Contarena was purely intimate, private, dedicated to the Contarini and their closest friends. The position, on the very first southern slopes of the Euganean Hills, is located where the slope of the hill merges with the plain, and Vigna Contarena stands out among the secular trees of the park well hidden from the outside.
It was built in the seventeenth century by Giorgio Contarini, senator of the Venetian Republic, from the branch of S. Trovaso "degli Scrigni", and reproduces the tendency of the Venetians to give greater importance to the main floor than to the ground floor, intended for merchandise and vehicles.
The main floor has all the rooms facing the facade, at midday, to be able to enjoy as much solar heat as possible, even in late autumn. On the back of the rooms, the long gallery that disobeyed them served as a ballroom, when numerous guests arrived to participate in the joyous harvest parties, horseback hunts and excursions on the hills.
Villa Contarini degli Scrigni
Address: Via L. Camerini, 1, 35016
Phone: 049 559 0347
Site:
http://www.villacontarini.eu/Location inserted by
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