Pleasantly situated at the foot of the Montello, which provides a green background to the large expanse of buildings that compose it, the villa was the country residence of the Doge Alvise Pisani.
In the first decades of the eighteenth century, the Venetian nobleman had the previous seventeenth-century building, inherited from the Correr, restructured, enlarging it and giving in a magnificent appearance. He also built the nearby parish church, which contains a fresco by Gianbattista Tiepolo.
The villa is made up of a central body with two floors, set far back, concluded by a pediment decorated with vases; onto this central structure are grafted two wings that reach forward, placed at right angles to it, bearing the frescoed coats of arms of the Correr and Pisani families. The three structures define an open courtyard looking onto the garden, once adorned with statues.
Other buildings are connected to the residence, the result of later interventions and alterations. Time has in fact left the trace of repeated modifications and plundering. In the twentieth century, for example, the statues in the garden were transferred and old works of art sold; later, the ecclesiastical owners allowed frescoes to become faded and assigned the various buildings for hospital purposes.
In the interior, a large hall can still be seen, frescoed in the Baroque period by Faustino Moretti, the room of the Doge Pisani, now stripped, and other rooms decorated with paintings and stucco works.
In 1980 the Municipality finally bought the villa, making it the headquarters of various associations, and occasionally holding cultural events there. However, the complex is still awaiting general restoration work and suitable exploitation.
Address: Via A. Anassilide n.5 - Biadene di Montebelluna
Period: seventeenth-eighteenth century
Current use: owned by the Municipality of Montebelluna, head office of associations
Opening hours: only the outside can be visited
