Attraktionen zu besuchen, während des Urlaubs in den Euganeischen Hügeln

Venetian Villas :

Villa Barbarigo - Historycal Garden
Sixty full size statues, and sixty more different sculptures were integrated into a world of architectures, streams, fountains, water jokes and fish ponds, between hundreds of different trees.[web...]

Villa Foscari detta La Malcontenta
Foscari's, also called "La Malcontenta". The pronaos of Ionic order seems to rise from a high plinth, so that it can be reflected in the waters of the river Brenta. The interiors were frescoed by Battista Zelotti and Battista Franco. [read...]

Villa Pisani
along the Riviera del Brenta, an ideal extension of Venetian Gran Canal on the land. In its 114 rooms doges, kings and emperors were welcomed and nowadays it is a national museum which conserves eighteenth and nineteenth century works of art and furniture, as Gianbattista Tiepolo's masterpiece.[read...]

About Andrea Palladio [www.cisapalladio.org]

Padua to see :

Giotto's Paint - Cappella degli Scrovegni
a masterpiece in the history of painting in Italy and Europe in the 14th century, is considered to be the most complete series of frescoes executed by Giotto in his mature age. [web...]

Visit the University of Padua
Padua is home to numerous important artistic and scientific collections, and its wide variety of museums, university galleries, aristocratic palazzi and exhibition spaces are open to both tourists and residents; many of them offer guided tours to make one's visit all the more profitable [www.unipd.it]

Orto Botanico di Padova
is the oldest garden in Europe and it is composed of one of the main collections of rare exotic plants that are nearly extinct, as well as ancient species. [web]

Arena di Verona
Arena di Verona's Opera Festival will start on June with Don Giovanni and it'll end on September with the famous Verdi's Aida.
Here are the perfomances and dates: [www.arena.it]

Antiques (Markets)
MONTAGNANA (PD) P.za Maggiore
3rd week-end each month  tel. 0429-81247

PIAZZOLA SUL BRENTA (PD) P.za R.Camerini
Last Sunday domenica each month  tel. 0337-525272

PADOVA Prato della Valle
3rd Sunday each month tel. 049-8205361

BADOERE (TV) P.za Indipendenza
1st Sunday each month tel. 0422-739023

ASOLO (TV) Centro storico
2nd week-end each month  tel. 0423-55967