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Starting in the second half of the
15th century, the Venetians began to look at the dry land from a new
viewpoint. The crisis in the Far East market, and the continual threat of the
Turks, persuaded them to transfer part of their commercial interests towards the
immediate hinterland, and not only. Discovering the countryside in this way, and
starting up the organisation of real farming estates, gave rise to the Villa. As
an efficient and self-sufficient complex unit, this building, always
architecturally fashionable, according to the times, soon became the favourite
holiday home for the Venetian nobility where they would go to spend the hot,
humid summer months. The Brenta Canal became in its own right the natural
"extension" of the Grand Canal of Venice, precisely because of the continual
appearance of palaces and residences of the most important and influential
patrician families of the lagoon area. The enhancement of this magnificence in
such an extraordinary and timeless way was entrusted to the most illustrious
architects of the time: Palladio, Scamozzi, Longhena,Pellegrini, Tiepolo.
It's along the Brenta Canal that the
Civilization of the Villas was born.
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