What you see

The front façade displays the hallmarks of Venetian villa design, most notably a serliana—a characteristic Renaissance window featuring three openings, with an arched central bay flanked by two lateral sections with architraves. The entrance portal bears the inscription “Ingenuitate” (nobility of birth), painted across the architrave, possibly referencing the ancient Roman concept of those born free or alternatively expressing the villa’s sobriety and measured character.

The façade once featured frescoes that are now illegible, and terminates in an elegant shelf cornice. By contrast, the rear elevation presents the utilitarian aspect of a dominical house—undecorated and austere, originally overlooking the agricultural lands worked for the owners. The villa stands at the end of a broad meadow along the abandoned bed of the Canale della Rottella, roughly one kilometer from the Adige River.