Villa Foscari, called La Malcontenta, is a Venetian villa designed by Andrea Palladio in 1559 in Malcontenta, a town near Mira in the province of Venice, along the Naviglio del Brenta, for the brothers Nicolò and Alvise Foscari, belonging to one of the most powerful of the Republic of Venice.
The residence has a majestic, almost regal character, unknown to all the other Palladian villas, to which the internal decoration contributes, the work of Giovanni Battista Zelotti and Battista Franco.
The villa was included in 1996 in the UNESCO World Heritage List, along with the other Palladian villas in the Veneto.
A legend has it that the villa owes the nickname of Malcontenta to a lady of the Foscari house, relegated within its walls in solitude to serving the sentence for her licentious conduct. The mystery hovers over the history of the lady: it is said that she lived her last thirty years in this place, while she was never seen going out or looking out of the windows.
The park of the villa was uncultivated and full of weeds and the fact of how the woman managed to survive remains shrouded in mystery. Nobody ever brought her food and nobody ever lived with her in the villa; hypotheses and anecdotes circulate about these strange circumstances.
Villa Foscari
Address: Via dei Turisti, 9, 30034
Phone: 041 5203966
Site:
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