The Villa Contarini estate stands in Piazzola sul Brenta (only few kilometers from Padua and Vicenza) on the ruins of an ancient castle built by the Dente family around the year 1000. Later it became a property of the Carraresi family, who were the rulers of Padua, and was then inherited by a member of the Contarini family. It is one of the largest and most beautiful Villas in Veneto. It is considered one of the most important artistic sights in the territory owing to its architectural features, as well as to the characteristic landscape surrounding it.Compared with the great number of Venetian Villas in this area, Villa Contarini is undoubtedly unique here architecture and 'man-made' nature are tightly and harmoniously intertwined with a magnificence and taste that have always characterized the Villa and its environs during time, up to its present appearance
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