Animated tours at Villa Contarini Camerini

"Animated" tours to enter, in the company of the actors of teatrOrtaet, Villa Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta, which is particularly suited to tell the story of how the place gradually goes to add up to multiple and disparate functions.
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Venetian villas played the role of economic hub of the lands owned by the Serenissima's patriciate, rising to the status of a place of residence and vacation, charging in some cases with important functions of civil and political representation. The animated tour opens with the cat and the lion, characters that summarize in a mythical-symbolic key the relationship between Venice and its hinterland.
Inside the villa, one goes from room to room, changing style, era, atmosphere, continually hovering between history and theater. The vicissitudes of the patrician families at the time of the Serenissima are evoked: from the marriage of Maria da Carrara, who brings the dowry of the Contarini family to the first settlement, to the Pleasure Clock that marks in the 17th century the celebrations organized by Marco Contarini (Procurator of St. Mark's), to the decline when the villa passes to other noble Venetian families, until the rebirth with the Camerini family.

In collaboration with TeatrOrtaet.