Palladian Villas of the Veneto

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The City centre of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto are a cluster of works by Andrea Palladio and his students which were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The number of villas included in the site was expanded two years later.

The term villa was used to describe a country house. Often rich families also had a house in town called a Palazzo. In most cases the owners named the Palazzo or Villa with the family surname, hence confusingly there is both a Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza and a Villa Chiericati in the countryside, just as there is a Palazzo Foscari in Venice and a Villa Foscari in the Veneto.

Besides from the historic centre of Vicenza, the site includes the following villas:

• Villa Angarano, Bassano del Grappa
• Villa Badoer, Fratta Polesine
• Villa Barbaro, Maser
• Villa Caldogno, Caldogno
• Villa Capra "La Rotonda", Vicenza
• Villa Chiericati, Grumolo delle Abbadesse
• Villa Cornaro, Piombino Dese
• Villa Emo, Vedelago
• Villa Forni Cerato, Montecchio Precalcino
• Villa Foscari, Mira
• Villa Gazzotti Grimani, Bertesina, Vicenza
• Villa Godi, Lonedo di Lugo Vicentino
• Villa Piovene, Lugo Vicentino
• Villa Pisani (Bagnolo), Bagnolo di Lonigo
• Villa Pisani Montagnana
• Villa Poiana, Poiana Maggiore
• Villa Saraceno, Agugliaro
• Villa Serego, San Pietro in Cariano
• Villa Thiene, Quinto Vicentino
• Villa Trissino, Sarego
• Villa Trissino, Vicenza
• Villa Valmarana, Bolzano Vicentino
• Villa Valmarana, Monticello Conte Otto
• Villa Zeno, Cessalto

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