Not my villa , of course, but the place where my life changed.​ I was working on an extraordinary construction site for me, that of the villa of Giangiorgio Trissino , who wanted to transform it in the Roman manner of Raphael and the ancients; I, still a stonemason, was increasingly involved in architecture for the Pedemuro workshop, the most renowned construction company in Vicenza  that had contracted out the work. Thus came the meeting that marked my destiny: I recognized

For almost everyone, my greatest masterpiece . Thanks to the freedom granted to me by Paolo Almerico , I was in fact able to create a pure work , in which the magnificence of the human intellect can shine forth. It is the perfect location, it is the perfect client, it is the perfect context, it is the perfect moment in my history as a man and as an architect: a house that is the temple of the sacred discussion of enlightened men on philosophy, theology, politics, our ancient

I had learned in Rome that there was not always a need for great ornamentation and pomp for an architecture to be harmonious and important . So chaste, Villa la Saraceno remains one of my favorites: every time I thought about the design of a new architecture, and especially the facade, I started with the character of the client, so that the villa would suit the owner's suit. In this case Biagio Saraceno - of an ancient Roman family - had recently taken on important publi

Discovering the wonders to the south of Lake Garda , Pindemonte regenerated his poetics. The poet Ippolito Pindemonte actually stayed at the Parco Giardino Sigurtà , in 1792. There he embarked on a journey of discovery of this area, both as a pleasure trip and as a quest for poetic inspiration. "Why did I come here? Why today, I, Ippolito Pindemonte, find myself in a fairy place like Sigurtà Garden Park? What am I looking for? I certainly wouldn't be here if it weren't for m

In the Olympic Theatre , every sound seems to carry the memory of an origin. The air moving through the cavea, the light resting on the painted columns, the streets of Thebes suspended in their perpetual illusion: everything invites you to listen. Architecture speaks before the music even begins. In this theatre conceived by Andrea Palladio  and illuminated by the imagination of Vincenzo Scamozzi, the stage extends toward an impossible horizon. Forced perspectives descend lik

Francesco Aviani was a painter born in Venice but who had his most prosperous career in the Vicenza area, particularly as a fresco painter and landscape perspective painter. Among his various works he decorated the interior of Villa Chiericati Milan in Sandrigo with frescoes in 1703, but it is in oil painting that his style emerges from the waters of his mind. In his landscape works one can detect a nostalgic mood in depicting Venetian panoramas, fused together with figures b

The most important and fascinating spiritual retreat of the Euganean mountains is located at its foot and dates back to the 11th century . After the first turbulent centuries, Praglia Abbey experienced a long flourishing period from the mid 1400s to the 19th century, during which the monks had to move several times, until their definitive return at the beginning of the 20th century. Its size, the balance of its spaces and its architectural style that oscillates between late

Together with Giovanni Bellini and Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano was one of the great painters active in the lagoon capital in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. We are talking about a magnificent Venice , one of the most brilliant artistic centres in the world. Giovanni was born and grew up inland, at the foot of the mountains in a town called Conegliano . That inland Veneto , made up of vast expanses enhanced by light, and framed by mounta

To understand who Goldoni was, let's start by saying that he began as a child to play with puppets, that he greatly admired Molière and that at some point he left his Commedia dell'Arte to write dangerously realistic pièces, continuing to reform Italian comedy . With his three-act comedy "I rusteghi " , for example, the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni wrote a cruel social satire of his contemporaries by attacking a Venetian bourgeoisie in full decline, whose male pillars we