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Finding Palladio in the Veneto, Italy

Italian-born author Victor Hazan tours some of Andrea Palladio's masterworks in the Veneto region and discovers much more than just beautiful buildings.

By Victor Hazan
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Villa Cornaro, designed by architect Andrea Palladio and completed in 1554. The house is in the village of Piombino Dese, about twenty miles northwest of Venice.The main boulevard through Vicenza, called Corso Palladio, bisects the city's center and is open only to pedestrians.The Palladio-influenced Loggia Valmarana, part of the Giardini Salvi gardens, overlooks the Seriola River in Vicenza.The Moses room at Villa Cornaro features some of the 104 frescoes Mattia Bortoloni painted throughout the residence around 1717.Ottorino Scquizzato with ingredients from his family's farms used in the kitchen at Ca' de Memi, the <i>agriturismo</i> establishment he owns in Piombino Dese.<i>Tagliolini</i> egg pasta with radicchio and pumpkin at Ca' de Memi.Michela Tasca at Ca' de Memi.Spinach lasagna with wild mushrooms at the Trattoria Zamboni.Autumn apples from Ca' de Memi.One of Palladio's last projects, the Villa Almerico-Capra, known as La Rotonda.The market in Vicenza.
Villa Cornaro, designed by architect Andrea Palladio and completed in 1554. The house is in the village of Piombino Dese, about twenty miles northwest of Venice.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
The main boulevard through Vicenza, called Corso Palladio, bisects the city's center and is open only to pedestrians.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
The Palladio-influenced Loggia Valmarana, part of the Giardini Salvi gardens, overlooks the Seriola River in Vicenza.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
The Moses room at Villa Cornaro features some of the 104 frescoes Mattia Bortoloni painted throughout the residence around 1717.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
Ottorino Scquizzato with ingredients from his family's farms used in the kitchen at Ca' de Memi, the agriturismo establishment he owns in Piombino Dese.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
Tagliolini egg pasta with radicchio and pumpkin at Ca' de Memi.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
Michela Tasca at Ca' de Memi.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
Spinach lasagna with wild mushrooms at the Trattoria Zamboni.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
Autumn apples from Ca' de Memi.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
One of Palladio's last projects, the Villa Almerico-Capra, known as La Rotonda.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
The market in Vicenza.
PHOTO: Don Freeman
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