Expanded and partially transformed in the 19th century, it overlooks a terraced garden, enclosed by a small rustic building, connected to the main house by an arched portal. The chapel is now separated from the complex by the road. The thickness of some load-bearing walls and the very irregular shape of the outer wall to the north suggest the ancient presence of a pre-existing structure, possibly part of the fortified system mentioned in local chronicles.

The villa hosts tourist apartments and is open to visits by reservation.

The 19th-century  country villa of the Azzoni Avogadro family dominates from the top of a hill, surrounded by woods and cultivated fields.

As strange as it may seem, very little is known for certain about the villa: the date of construction is unknown, its architect is unknown, and the events surrounding it are vague. It was most likely commissioned by the Venetian patrician family of the Donà, who built it in the early decades of the 17th century, on the remains of a previous late 16th-century square-plan manor house.

In 1847, the Villa was acquired by the Jewish banking family Jacur from Padua. Internally, the layout is traditional with central halls, side rooms, and the staircase located to the east.

Only some parts of the frescoes in the ground floor hall remain visible. It is the hall located in the northeast that stands out as the most important room on the ground floor, perhaps of the entire Villa: a charming "sitting room" features frescoes of remarkable quality on mythological/religious themes, where putti rise to frame the windows and surround “mirrors” of marmorino—which originally were meant to host paintings, tapestries, or actual mirrors—giving the hall a scenic and sumptuous beauty.

The facade presents the classic modulation of Venetian villas with openings on three levels.

The traveler who in the eighteenth century faced the traditional Tour of Italy and, aboard the burchio went up the Brenta from Venice to Padua, could admire one of the jewels of the late Venetian Baroque: the complex of Villa Widmann Rezzonico Foscari.

Jewel among the jewels of the Brenta Riviera, Villa Widmann Rezzonico Foscari is characterized by its ancient statues, brilliant frescoes, created by Giuseppe Angeli and Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna, Murano glass chandeliers and period furnishings. Its monumental park extends for over 16,000 square meters between avenues of hornbeams, ancient roses and a romantic lake with aquatic bald cypresses.

Built in the early eighteenth century by the will of the Serimanns, Venetian nobles of Persian origin, the Villa obtained its current shape only in the middle of the same century, when the Widmann family, after purchasing the property, modernized it adapting it to the French Rococo style. The central body thus became a welcoming home for parties and receptions. Currently the complex is owned by the Metropolitan City of Venice, formerly the Province of Venice.

Villa Dionisi was designed by the marquis Gabriele Dionisi in 1700.

It has a typical large English-style lawn with remains of statues and a cave leading to a “giassara” (an ice-house) adorned with caryatids. Considered the symbol of Cerea by lots of people, it is one of the most characteristic examples of the sumptuous eighteenth-century mansions. The villa houses the Museum of Applied Arts in Furniture.

The Loschis acquired the Biron estate in Monteviale in 1436 after a swap contract that the family made with the Benedictine monastery outside the walls of Vicenza of Ss. Felice and Fortunato. Antonio Nicolò Loschi ceded his properties in the vicinity of Angarano to the monastic community, receiving in return the Biron estate, along the waters of Dioma, around which the family's interests had long revolved.
Very little is still known about the subsequent events. It is known that by 1636 the villa was already a respected structure. It was Fabrizio Loschi's wife, the wealthy Elisabetta Poiana, who desired the construction of the small church dedicated to St. Francis, situated in an elevated position at the back of the villa.
The various expansion and redevelopment interventions of the complex, desired by the owners, were carried out over time based on designs and projects by Francesco Muttoni and Ottone Calderari.

Inside the villa, one can admire the numerous frescoes by the great Giambattista Tiepolo, commissioned by Niccolò Loschi to celebrate the public recognition of the title of counts obtained by the family in 1729 from the Republic of Venice.
The iconographic path is inspired by the cardinal virtues of humanity, which are represented by the artist in a simple manner, sometimes ironic, sometimes dramatic. The works belong to the period of Giambattista's early maturity and represent one of the most interesting pictorial cycles of Gian Battista Tiepolo, which opened a successful series of villas and palaces decorated by the artist in Vicenza and the surrounding area. 

The historical park surrounding the villa represents a favorable environment for rare species of spontaneous flora and majestic centenary trees, among which the swamp cypress, with its six meters in circumference at a meter and a half from the ground, is considered a national monumental tree. The park is also characterized by the exceptional fauna: just a few steps from the city, deer, badgers, and many other species practically absent from the surrounding plain find refuge, alongside particular birds such as the finch, the great tit, the great spotted woodpecker, and the jay, which require specific tree conditions for their stay and reproduction.

ENTRY

Full ticket (Salone + Park) € 12.00
Group ticket (Salone + Park) € 8.00
Reduced ticket (Salone + Park) € 6.00
Ticket "Shell Grotto and Church of St. Francis" € 5.00.

Reservations for guided tours can be made by contacting: visite@villazileri.com or by calling: +39 3515345013.