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Creation of the splendid garden is ascribable to the Countess Evelyn van Millingen, wife of Almorò III Pisani in 1852.
English in taste, it surrounds the great palace built by Cardinal Francesco Pisano around 1550 to administer the enormous estate formerly controlled by Venice and purchased in 1468 by Pisani, the wealthy Venetian family.
The villa was built on the remains of a defense stronghold of the Estensi family and the medieval mark is still recognizable in the vast tree-shaded piazza behind the access canal.
It was Evelyn Pisani, born in Constantinople of an English father and cosmopolitan in culture, who created the aura of aristocratic informality of Pisani Palace, renamed 'The Doge's Farm' by a English writer, Margaret Symonds, who in 1893 published the book, 'Days spent on a Doge's Farm', an incomparable text for describing the garden of Villa Pisani, Evelyn's 'secret paradise where even illustrious guests like the Empress of Germany, the Queen of Sweden, Lord Byron and Henry James stayed.
Is a large formal garden with sculptures and boxwood hedges in which elaborate Victorian taste joins with the tradition of the 'Italian Garden'. Around the villa, the garden has a strongly architectural framework characterized by a marked axial layout that tones gradually down in the naturalness of the surrounding park.
This is an extraordinary creation inspired by the volume published in London in 1892, 'The Formal Garden in England' by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Statues, fountains, the old ice-house, the rock garden, the family theater and chapel which are important examples of Elizabethan neo-Gothic complete the furnishings of the big garden and park with centuries-old trees. |
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Address
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Via Roma 25 - 35040
Vescovana (Pd)
Tel/fax 0425.920016
fax 0425/450811
cell. 336/496470 - 340/9520301
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Informations
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from Monday to Friday from 9a.m. to 12 Noon and from 2p.m. to 5p.m.
On Saturday and Sunday, visits only upon booking.
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Tickets
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€ 6,00 per person.
Groups over 15 people € 5,00. |
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