Sights in The Veneto
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Museo Antoniano
This musuem holds a collection of art and religious objects done for Padua's basilica and convent.
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Museo Naturalistico e Archeologico
The Museo Naturalistico e Archeologico has a modest collection of local ancient artefacts.
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Museo Archeologico
Museo Archeologico houses an interesting collection of Greek and Roman pieces.
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Palazzo Isoppo da Porto
Palladio designed Palazzo Isoppo da Porto, which remains unfinished.
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Jewish Ghetto
Off Piazza delle Erbe to the southwest is Verona’s historic Jewish Ghetto. Tall buildings frame the narrow side street Via Rita Rosani, named for the Resistance heroine who commanded a band of partisans in Verona until 1944, when she was caught and summarily executed at age 24. On the southeast side of Via Rosani is Verona’s newly restored synagogue, where you might find the doors open to Jewish visitors and others who express a sincere interest.
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Villa di Maser
On a vineyard-covered hillside is Palladio and Paolo Veronese's golden monument to the Venetian bea vita (good life) : Villa Masèr. Palladio set the arcaded yellow villa into the hillside with a fanciful grotto out back, but inside Paolo Veronese has upstaged the master architect with wildly imaginative trompe l’œil architecture.
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Villa Widmann Foscari
An early-18th-century rococo caprice lying just west of Oriago, the Villa Widmann Foscari was built by a trading family, the Serriman (of Persian origin). It was later taken over by the Widmann clan and given the French-rococo flavour it exudes today. Inside, the most impressive element is the grand Sala delle Feste (Ballroom), sumptuously decorated and ringed halfway up by an ornate gallery. The garden is littered with 18th-century statuettes of nymphs and cherubs.
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Villa Sagredo
A noteworthy villa in Vigonovo, known as a romantic spot for weddings.
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Villa Pisani
Villa Pisani, also known as Villa Nazionale, is set in extensive gardens just short of Strà and was completed in 1760 for Doge Alvise Pisani. It was later used by Napoleon as a temporary residence and in more recent times hosted Hitler's first meeting with Mussolini. It is quite an exercise in family trumpet-blowing. From the outsize statues at the entrance to Tiepolo's ceiling fresco (a pictorial eulogy to the Pisani clan), it is a flashy display of wealth.
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Villa Gradenigo
A noteworthy villa in Oriago, used for conventions.
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Villa Foscarini Rossi
In Strà itself is the imposing 17th-century Villa Foscarini Rossi, constructed for one of Venice's senior families. Among the many architects involved was Vincenzo Scamozzi (who worked from designs by Palladio), although the present look results partly from a later neoclassical reworking.
The restored mansion, surrounded by carefully manicured grounds, hosts a couple of permanent displays, one dedicated to Rossimoda, which for decades has produced footwear for the biggest names in fashion (from Yves Saint Laurent to Fendi), and the other a private art collection of Luigino Rossi, who happens to be behind the shoes and now owns the villa. A separate and more modest…
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Villa Foscari
The Villa Foscari is also known as La Malcontenta (the Malcontent), supposedly because a female family member was exiled here for fooling around with people other than hubby. Its interior is remarkable only for the frescoes with which it is covered. They mostly depict scenes from classical literature.
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Villa Barchessa Valmarana
Across the Brenta from Villa Widmann Foscari is the Villa Barchessa Valmarana, which is noteworthy mainly for its frescoes.
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Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari
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Piazza del Duomo
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Piazza dei Martiri
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Palazzo Rosso
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Palazzo dei Vescovi
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Cattedrale di San Martino
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Scrovegni Chapel
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Eremitani Church
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Basilica di Sant’Antonio
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