Villa Badoer

Visit to Villa Badoer

Villa Badoer, known as La Badoera, built in Fratta Polesine around 1560 is one of more prestigious villas in Polesine.

Andrea Palladio (Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, known as Andrea Palladio, Padova 1508- Maser (Treviso) 1580), very important Italian architect of sixteenth century, was asked to design and realize the villa by Francesco Badoer, a member of an aristocratic Venetian family.

La Badoera is constitued by a central structure, for a residence of aristocratic family, and two side wings, that contain the meadow in front of the villa.

The facade, with an elegante gable, is made up of a columned Ionic pronaos and wide flight of stairs.

The interior, subdivided in a central hall and adjoining rooms, is decorated with Piefrancesco Giallo Fiorentino's fresco, at the end of the sixteenth century.

The pictures represent mythological scenes and grotesque (ornaments derived from a classical antiquity).

In the nineteenth century, the wings were extended, the interior was resored and the Moncenigo's family coat of arms inserted on the gable.