Throughout the midst of 16th century a lot of noble family of Venice decided to invest their huge wealth, coming from the commerce in the Far East, to carry out great rural activities.
So, the family of Corner, Barbaro, Badoer, Emo, Grimani and  Foscari, holders of the economical political power (together with great philosophers and personalities who were very fond of art) found in Andrea Palladio their ideal architect. This is the origin of the characteristic Villa in Veneto. An original structure which had great success meeting the aesthetic and functional requirements. The ability of Palladio was to use characteristics of imperial Rome known by the studying of ancient texts and frequent travels with his teacher Gian Giorgio Trissino, and combined it with the humanism philosophy. According with he underlines the not only religious but also cultural role of temples.
So near the base structure started to be erected the typical “barchesse”, stables, colonies dwellings.

All the Palladian villas were realized at the end of 16th century. The pleasures of a life in contact with nature were a second choice, the main reason was the economy: the needs of investing in intensive farming. Subsequently in the decades, with more and more decision the villa assumed the character of "place of delights" and also a kind of status symbol.
The "vacation", the stay in villa, usually was in coincidence with the two principal harvest periods of the agricultural (the reaping, among half June and end July and the vintage, from October to half November) by the 18th century it started to assume an aspect of social distinction for the rich Venetian middle class, who also decorated themselves, with noble titles.
This fashion, typically Venetian, constituted the main subject for the Trilogia della Villeggiatura in which Carlo Goldoni represented the evolution of the society of that time.
In the three centuries after the death of Palladio were built hundred villas in the country of the Venetian hinterland and along the main river and stream. The new social economy conception spread arriving very far and even in the New World, in the great plantations of the south of the United States of America.

 

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