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3rd Day: Excursion to Burano, Torcello and Murano
Breakfast in the hotel and boat trip from Punta
The Serenissima and its islands Sabbioni with a guided tour to the small islands of
4 days the lagoon: Burano, the fishing island, where lace
is still made according to old patterns. A tech-
nique in which Venetian craftsmanship achieved
1st Day: Arrival to Lido di Jesolo unattainable skill; Torcello, with the Cathedral of
Dinner and overnight. S. Maria Assunta, which was of great importance
for the Christian religion, has the most interest-
2nd Day: Venice ing mosaics after Ravenna; Murano, with its glass
After the breakfast boat transfer from Punta industry, is well known all over the world. Return
Sabbioni to St. Mark’s Square. Here you will meet to the hotel. Farewell dinner and overnight.
our local guide. In the morning, visit the most
beautiful sights on St. Mark’s Square.The rest of 4th Day: Departure Business Proposals in Veneto
the day is free to get to know the city on your After the breakfast departure.
own. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.In the
morning, visit to the most beautiful sights on St.
Mark’s Square.The rest of the day is free to get
to know the city by your own choice. Dinner and
overnight at the hotel.
Venezia - Venice

area was already called Malcontenta, probably boat.
Venice from the so-called “Brenta mal contenuto”, be- Return in the evening to the hotel for dinner and
cause the river often overflowed.
overnight.
and the Venetian Villas The tour continues with a visit to Villa Wid- So how many are the Venetian Villas? The
3 days man-Mira. The building complex of the villa was “Venetian Villa” is a type of residence founded
built at the end of the 18th century by the Sher- by the aristocracy of the Republic of Venice and
1st Day: Venetian Villas imann, nobles of Persian origin dedicated to trad- developed in agricultural areas between the end
of the 15th century and the 19th century. More
ing, in a place which is still called “la Riscossa”.
Arrival in the evening in the Riviera del Brenta. Immediately after the middle of the eighteenth than four thousand Venetian villas were built,
Accommodation in hotel. Dinner and overnight. particularly on the Riviera del Brenta. About 80%
The Riviera del Brenta was visited by Casanova, century the villa belonged to the Widmanns, who of the villas are private property, 5% belong to
Galileo, Byron and D’Annunzio, designed by Cor- renovated the manor house according to the the clergy and the rest are public or mixed own-
onelli and Costa, painted by Tiepolo, Cimaroli, French rococo style. Although small in size, the ership. In the 16th century, with the architect
Guardi and Canaletto, praised both by Goethe party lounge of Villa Widman has a decorative Andrea Palladio, a specific type of Venetian villa
and Goldoni, hosted French and Russian royalty; richness that has few equals along the Brenta. was created, identified with the name of Pallad-
also Napoleon, the Habsburgs and the Savoy re- A new room was added to the oratory, divided ian villa: in Veneto there are 24 and all of them
sided here. from the church by a grate; this room was proba-
bly used mainly for women’s confessions. Among are included in the UNESCO World Heritage list.
2nd Day: Riviera del Brenta the many distinguished guests of the villa there 3rd Day: Venice
were also the famous Venetian playwright, friend
Morning visit to the villas of the Riviera del of Ludovico Widmann, Carlo Goldoni; the musi- Off to the beautiful Venice. Guided tour of the
Brenta. The tour begins with a guided tour of cian Igor Stravinski and several times Gabriele historic center: St. Mark’s Square, the Cathedral,
Villa Foscari, known as the Malcontenta*, the D’Annunzio, friend of the Count Pietro Foscari. the Doge’s Palace, the Prisons and the Bridge of
dreamy villa-temple situated in the bend of the Lastly, visit of Villa Pisani Reale in Strà. The most Sighs.
river, which can be reached quickly by boat from magnificent villa on the Riviera, built in the 18th Venice has more than 400 bridges, including
the center of Venice. Beautiful work of the archi- century under commission from the rich and the most famous among them the Constitution
tect Andrea Palladio designed for the brothers prestigious Venetian Pisani family. In the approx- Bridge or Calatrava ( named after the architect
Nicolò and Alvise Foscari around the end of the imately ten hectares of the park of Villa Pisani who designed it) which is one of the 4 bridges
50s. Their family was one of the most powerful there are the monumental stables and the maze, that cross the Grand Canal together with the
in the city, so much so that the residence has a initially designed as a circular and inspired, with Ponte degli Scalzi in front of the railway station
majestic, almost royal character, unknown to all the turret served by a double helix that leads to (the name comes from the order of the Discalced
the other Palladian villas. the statue of Minerva, a ritual conquest of the Carmelites). The third bridge over the Grand
* According to a legend, the villa owes its nick- wisdom. With the fall of the Republic of Venice, Canal is the Ponte dell’Accademia in the Dorso-
name Malcontenta to a lady of the Foscari house, the villa was sold to Napoleon Bonaparte who duro area, it was built to be a temporary bridge 67
confined within its walls in solitude to serve the donated it to the Viceroy of Italy Eugenio Beau- that... lasts about 80 years now. The Ponte di Ri-
sentence for her licentious conduct. The park of harnais; in 1814 it was given to the Emperor of alto is the fourth and last bridge over the Grand
the villa was uncultivated and full of weeds and Austria and finally in 1866 to the Savoy’s who fi- Canal, the oldest and the most photographed.
it remains shrouded in mystery how the woman nally in 1882 gave it into state property. Now it is A bridge that has made the history of Venice,
managed to survive. There are also two histori- the National Museum. the Ponte dei Sospiri: if lovers pass under it in
cal versions: 1) it seems that the place was nick- a gondola at sunset, their love will last forever.
named as early as 1431, in memory of the dis- Reminiscent of the great banquets in the villa, In fact, in the past, sighs weren’t actually about
satisfaction shown by the citizens of Padua and the gastronomy of the Riviera del Brenta is main- love, the bridge served as a passage for prisoners
Piove di Sacco regarding the construction of the ly based on the cuisine of lagoon and Adriatic from the prisons to the offices of the Inquisitors
Naviglio del Brenta; 2) a good thirty years before fish and shellfish. A rich lunch to taste the typical to be tried, hence... the “sighs”.
the deed of ownership by the Foscari family, the dishes and in the afternoon excursion by motor- Later in the day, return home.
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