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Looking for the best historic villas and palaces in Italy? In Vicenza, sleep beneath Tiepolo frescoes, reserve an entire Palladian villa for sixteen, stay inside a Renaissance palace, or discover a hilltop echo of Rome’s Pantheon, private art collections and remarkable Italian gardens. Some of Europe's most fascinating country house experiences are here.
An eighteenth century estate where the kitchen, granaries, farm workshops and agricultural machinery still explain how a Venetian country house actually worked.
Taste Tai Rosso among historic vineyards, discover a frescoed hall of astronomy and follow a family connection to the first voyage around the world.
Romeo and Juliet’s castles in the hills west of Vicenza, with panoramic views from Juliet’s terrace and dinner inside her medieval fortress.
Nineteenth century Jumeau dolls, historic Steiff animals, Italian Furga designs and a Hollywood inspired fashion collection inside a 500 year old Venetian residence.
A Garden of Gods and Private Houses
A private Renaissance masterpiece you can rent for a week
a façade redesigned centuries later, and a painted world of Greek mythology, Amazons and ancient Rome.
live with Renaissance frescoes and spend the evening inside the whole historic house
The secret underground tour of a Palladian masterpiece that helped shape England's country houses.
A Michelin Key stay inside a UNESCO Palladian estate, with a pool, contemporary art, a restaurant facing the villa and the Palladio Suite inside the Renaissance house.
An eighteenth century villa, estate produced olive oil and brunch above an ancient lake.
Eight historic apartments, Murano chandeliers, a monumental columned courtyard and an artist residency inside a UNESCO palace featured by The Guardian.
Sunday brunch, filter coffee, bike hire, workshop, showers and five rooms inside a fifteenth-century palazzo
Behind Palladio’s most famous villa, a restored nineteenth century grove brings old trees, panoramic paths, a nymphaeum and 65,000 spring bulbs into the visit.
A façade motif traced to the Baths of Diocletian
Sleep among Giandomenico Tiepolo’s frescoes, have coffee in the historic kitchen and walk through a forest opened to the public after 300 years.
A private dinner among painted Roman emperors
A villa wedding in the Vicenza countryside, on the family estate of Luigi da Porto, the Italian writer behind Romeo and Juliet.
Before La Rotonda and La Malcontenta, Palladio tested here the temple front that would become one of the most influential ideas in European country house architecture.
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