VILLA REPETA BRESSAN (ricostruita su precedente opera di Palladio)
CAMPIGLIA DEI BERICI - Via Palladio 1 - tel. 0444 866032
Visits by appointment. Gruppi fino a 15 persone

The present Villa Repeta, now owned by Bressan family, was erected in 1672 after the structure designed by Andrea Palladio was completely destroyed by a fire.
The building started probably between 1557 and 1558 after Francesco Repeta died in 1556. In 1556 the buildingyard was undoubtely in activity as it is also mentioned by Giorgio Vasari. We know the design of the Palladian building, because it was published by the Master in "The Four Book of Architecture".
"The arcades have columns of Doric order... In the e0treme corners of the roof where you can see the loggias out of the whole body of the house, there are two columbaries and the loggias. In the side opposing the stables there are rooms, some of which are dedicated to Temperance, others to Justice and others to other Virtues".
Palladio also described the costumer as kind and hospitable man who "welcomes all the people visiting him".
The structure of the whole building seems atypical with respect to the traditional Palladian formulation of country architecture.
On the contrary, the seventeenth century building shows a main body characterized, in its middle section, by the light rustication and the double series of pilaster strips of Tuscan order (in the lower part) and Ionic order (in the upper part), crowned by a triangular pediment with the family's coat-of-arms. The rear facade shows a loggia with four Tuscan columns.