Villa Barbaro (also known as Villa Barbaro Basadonna Manin Giacomelli Volpi) in Maser (Treviso) is a Venetian villa, built by Andrea Palladio between 1554 and 1558-1560 for the humanist Daniele Barbaro and his brother Marcantonio Barbaro, ambassador of the Republic of Venice.
Thus transforming the old medieval palace owned by the family into a splendid country house suited to the study of the arts and intellectual contemplation, decorated with a cycle of frescoes that represents one of Paolo Veronese's masterpieces.
The villa complex, which also includes a Palladian temple, was included by UNESCO in 1996, together with the other Palladian villas in the Veneto region, on the list of world heritage sites.
The villa stands halfway up the Asolani hills, not far from a spring which according to tradition was a place of worship and perhaps also a temple. Before entering the heritage of the Barbaro family, the land belonged to the Pisani and Giustinian families.
Villa Barbaro
Address: Via Cornuda, 7, 31010
Phone: 0423 923004
Site:
https://www.villadimaser.it/Location inserted by
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