Château et Jardins de Freÿr / Meuse (Belgique)

Villa La Rotonda, Veneto in Italy

• The history of architecture offers a few revolutionary milestones. So were the Cistercians in the Middle Age with their churches, the beauty of which derived from their sobriety.
• So was Palladio in the Renaissance and up to the Romantics as the influence of his ideas pervaded not only in his native Italy but also in the anglo-saxon architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries.
• No other of his works synthesizes better his style than La Rotonda, to the south of Vicenza. It is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage List.
• Inside, superb frescoes decorate the impressive cupola.
• The Villa was bought in the early 20th century by Count Valmarana, whose family restored and maintained it impeccably up to this day.
• This influential family of the Venetian Region has a long record artistic patronage, especially for Palladio, who built for them two villas north of Vicenza as well as a superb palace and a chapel, both in Venice.
• www.villalarotonda.it
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• www.cispalladio.org
• whc.unesco.org