Venetian Villas and Brenta Riviera Tour from Venice: History and Nature

Highlights

• Venetian Villas Visit
• Panoramic Minivan Tour
• Local Tour Leader

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Museo Nazionale di Villa Pisani

   1h

   Villa Pisani in Stra is a late Baroque Venetian villa located along the Riviera del Brenta, near the city of Stra, a few kilometers from Venice. Villa Pisani is the most impressive, the largest and the most visited villa on the Riviera. It was built on a pre-existing building to celebrate the glory of the Pisani family when Alvise Pisani was elected doge in 1735. After the end of the Serenissima, it was owned of Napoleon, in 1814 the Austrians took over. When Venice joined the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, Vittorio Emanuele II stayed there for a short time and two years later it became the property of the state. Since the late 1800s it has been a National Museum. Countless guests and important visitors from all over Europe: Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Gustavo of Sweden, Maria Luigia of Parma and many others. In 1934 Hitler and Mussolini met there.

2. 2

   Riviera del Brenta

   Pass by

   Fascinating route along the Brenta River

3. 3

   Villa Widmann Rezzonico Foscari

   1h

   Visit to Villa Widmann and its park

Before you go

Location