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RIVIERA DEL BRENTA
Very impressive excursion through the navigation of the Brenta on the famous "Burchiello" a typical Venetian boat time for passenger transport worked and finely decorated, used especially by wealthy Venetians classes to reach their villas in the countryside. Even today the "Burchiello" modern and comfortable retraces the Brenta River with sailing from Venice to Padua and vice versa, with guided tours during the course of some Venetian villas, rich in frescoes, which was the summer residence of the Venetian nobility of '700 . By Mira in Stra it is lined with several beautiful houses with the main facade facing the canal.
Starting from Fusina, Malcontenta, overlooking Villa Foscari, known as the "Malcontenta" one of the masterpieces by Palladio. A Mira Villa Widmann and the Barchessa Valmarana and going again in Stra Villa Foscarini Rossi whose project is partly due to more and Palladio, and Villa Pisani, the most impressive of all the Venetian villas filled with frescoes by the greatest Venetian artists, one of Tiepolo . You can get lost in the vast garden, with the large central swimming pool, courtyards and "orangery" and end up in the famous labyrinth with dense two-meter high hedges.
And 'possible to walk along the river by car or for lovers of the outdoors and of two wheels, by bicycle from Malcontenta to Stra.