Our final day out, away from Venice was blessed by glorious weather, and we had a fairly early start, catching the Number 2 to Tronchetto to board our coach. Off to Fanzolo, where in the mid sixteenth century, the Emo family commissioned Andrea Palladio and the painter Zelotti to create a grand farmhouse in the countryside. Architectural perfection, stunning fresco decoration and in the days of the 1580s until the 19th century, a perfect, pragmatic operational farm, planting and harvesting the newly arrived crop of maize, brought from The Americas is the fifteenth century.
Off for luch in Asolo, a stunning, beautiful resort town in the mountains, and from there to Villa Barbaro in Maser, designed for MarcAntonio and Daniele Barbaro and decorated by Paolo Veronese and Alessandro Vittoria. A glorious interior especially, and a newly restored nymphaeum with strange oversized statues by Marcantonio and rather superior, smaller sculpture by Vittoria
We finished our day at the extraordinary Brion Tomb in Altivole, designed by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa over ten years, from 1968 to 1978; a fabulous symphony of Brutalism, Japanese Zen and Venetian colour.
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