IL PARCO DI VILLA DEI CEDRI

Villa dei Cedri
The Villa dei Cedri is a typical neoclassical construction of notable sobriety and harmony. It has three floors, two "piano nobile" and a third for the servants. It doesn't follow the traditional layout of the Villas in Venetia, but is more similar to the Lombard style.

The central body has a triangular tympanum which, in the façade facing the park, rests on four pilasters with Corinthian capitals. These rise to the two upper floors; at the base end is the embossed volume of the ground floor. The Villa dei Cedri was initially restored in the early 1900's, when the green stone portals that characterise the secondary entrance were added. A fountain was installed in the dining room, the halls were decorated with stuccoes and columns in eighteenth century style. Furthermore, you will find particular "bathrooms" typical of the neoclassical period with baths made of marble from Carrara.
The traces of frescoes dating back to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century are of particular interest. Some of the furniture in the Villa dates back to the early nineteenth century, including armchairs and console tables. Surrounded by a park of 13 hectares, with its original form and arboreal architecture (with cedar, holm-oak, sequoia, fir, magnolia, exotic plants, etc.), a charming little lake completes the beautiful picture.

Villa Moscardo
"Villa Moscardo" is the oldest, dating back to the fourteenth century. The facade was renovated in the nineteenth-century.

Guestrooms - Outhouses - Stables
A single body, with a particular layout, dating back to the fourteenth-fifteenth century. In the late nineteenth-century it was enriched with antique elements such as the typical Venetian windows (1300-1400) and portals with embroidered corners (1400).
The red marble benches decorated with spiral or chequered arched lintels are of notable interest. In the stables, similar to those of Palazzo Miniscalchi in Verona, you can still see the original stalls for the horses, the storerooms and harness rooms as they once were.

Conservatory
There are still two conservatories in the park, one of which is particularly interesting, with a barrel vault and a grand pavilion dome in the central body, which rises high above the smaller buildings. The nineteenth-century structure is made of iron and decorated with charming wrought iron, scrolls and floral patterns.

Caretaker's lodges
Due to the size of the park these three buildings stand on three different roads: the "Portineria della Madonna" or Guglia Miniscalchi, the "Portineria Ovest" - also known as "del Molinel" - and the secondary lodge towards the countryside. The first is built in neo-Gothic style (lancet windows, copper roof with imitation painted brick), similar to Frankish architecture, (late nineteenth, early twentieth century), and was the head caretaker’s lodge for the Villa. The second dates back to the end of the nineteenth or early twentieth century, and is built in classic neo-romantic style. The third dates back to the fifteenth century; it was restructured in the nineteenth century in a late Medieval style, and a niche was created for a "nymphaeum" hailing to the style of Cinquecento Villas.