Villa Valmarana, a 16th-century patrician villa in Vicenza

The Villa Valmarana, situated in Vigardolo, Monticello Conte Otto, is a patrician villa attributed to Andrea Palladio. Constructed during the 1540s, it is one of Palladio's earlier works. The building was commissioned by two cousins of the Valmarana family, and the layout of the rooms suggests that Palladio's mandate was to provide accommodation for two nuclear families.

The design shows the influence of buildings from antiquity, which Palladio had seen on his first visit to Rome in 1541. The villa is decorated with frescoes, some of which date from the 16th century; they are more or less contemporaneous with the original occupation of the building.

In 1996, UNESCO included the building in the World Heritage Site named "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto".

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