Rocca Pisana is a Venetian villa designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi in Palladian style in 1576. The client Vettor Pisani was a Venetian nobleman who already owned extensive land properties in the Lonigo-Bagnolo area. "A day at the Rocca Pisana is a life experience, a therapeutic session", so remembered the architect and artist Manfredo Massironi. And in fact, beyond the artistic historiography that discovers and re-evaluates, only in the mid-twentieth century, the most important work by Vincenzo Scamozzi, something magical catches those who have the privilege of spending a few hours in the ancient villa of Vicenza.
The Rocca Pisana rises near Lonigo, on a hill from which it dominates the Vicenza plain. This detachment from the "underlying life", combined with the symbiosis between the building, which opens up to the sky and the woods, and the surrounding nature transmit to the visitor the feeling of being in the building and at the same time outside, surrounded by nature, receiving a beneficial and relaxing effect. In this sense, a day in this ancient place is "a therapeutic experience".
Who knows if "the architect of light" thought of this when, in 1574, he designed his most suggestive work, commissioned by Vettor Pisani, nobleman of a powerful Venetian family, eldest son of that Giovanni who in November 1523 bought the fief of Bagnolo. In the Treatise "The idea of ​​universal architecture" Vincenzo Scamozzi adds the date of 1576 next to the description of the Rocca Pisana, which probably corresponds to the end of the works.
Rocca Pisana
Address: Via Rocca 1, 36045
Phone: 328 2715357
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