"Animated" tours to discover Villa Contarini, in Piazzola sul Brenta, in the company of actors from teatrOrtaet. Villa Contarini lends itself particularly well to telling the story of how Venetian villas gradually and over time took on multiple and disparate functions.

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Venetian villas played the role of economic fulcrum of the lands owned by the Serenissima's patriciate, both as places to stay and vacation, but also charging in some cases with important functions of civil and political rep...