Villa Contarini is located on the remains of an ancient castle built around the year 1000. Acquired by the Carraresi, lords of Padua, it was inherited by a member of the Contarini family. Until the second half of the seventeenth century the Villa remained a rural residence. It was, in fact, Marco Contarini, Procurator of San Marco, who enlarged the building, making it similar to a Royal Palace and making it an extraordinary “theatrical place”. After a long period of abandonment, the complex was purchased by the Camerini family who brought it back to its former glory, completing it according to the taste of nineteenth-century eclecticism.
ph Alessandra Bello