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Towards the middle of
the 1500s, many Venetian patrician families decided to invest their
great accumulated wealth in commerce with the East in the
realisation of great enterprises of agriculture under direct
administration. It was then that
the Corners, the Barbaros, the Badoers, the Emos, the Grimanis,
the Foscari, holders of economic and political power, but also
great students of philosophy and patrons of the arts, found in
Andrea Palladio their ideal interpreter.
In this way, the Veneto villa was born, a type of lodging
which was entirely original, that had great success, as it
responded to both aesthetic needs and functional needs at the
same time.
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