The Villa Valmarana, situated in Lisiera, a locality of Bolzano Vicentino in northern Italy, was designed by Andrea Palladio and built for the Valmarana family in the 1560s. The villa, also known as Valmarana Scagnolari Zen, was nearly totally destroyed during World War II but has been rebuilt.
The building did not closely resemble the plan which Palladio published in his I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) of 1570. This divergence may be because Gianfrancesco Valmarana, the architect's client, died while his house was being built.
Located in the province of Vicenza, the historic manor stands as a significant example of Palladian architecture in the Veneto region.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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