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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
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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