Guide of Riviera del Brenta, Italy

This is often thought to be the most magnificent, grandiose building on the Riviera. Villa Pisani is in Stra, about 8 km from Padua. It was built around 1720 in a style that brings together Classical and Baroque elements, producing an effect that is worthy of the palaces in Versailles and Caserta.

Visitors to the Villa can still see the original furnishings in the 114 rooms and the magnificent frescoes painted by Gianbattista Tiepolo between 1760 and 1762 in the ballroom. The huge park surrounding the villa is filled with statues and buildings, such as the exedra, the archeological hill, the ice-house, the lemon-house and the stables.