VILLA PIOVENE PORTO GODI (impronta palladiana)
LONEDO - via Palladio 1 - tel. 0445 8606 13
Every day, holidays included: 14.30-19.00 (summertime); 14-17 (wintertime)
Visits to the 19th Cent. Park and to the gardens
Admission: € 4,20

The structure of Villa Piovene Porto Godi stands few steps from Villa Godi Malinverni. According to some historians its central body is ascribed to Andrea Palladio and dates back to 1539-40.
The facade shows a jutting pronaos with si0 olums of Ionic order crowned by the triangular pediment adorned with statues.
In the eighteenth century Francesco Muttoni conceived the two lateral side-houses, the long staircase and the gate.
The garden is enriched by a lot of statues ascribed to Orazio Marinali or, more probaly, to sculptors from his circle. Muttoni also designed the pincers-shaped staircase that leads to the lofty floor and cuts the base of the pronaos. Built in the fifteenth century St. Jerome's chapel added to the Villa. A large park developed along the pre-mountain slopes is of national interest.