Villa Pisani (Montagnana)

The Villa Pisani at Montagnana in the province of Padua, Veneto was about 1552 designed by Andrea Palladio for the Cardinal Francesco Pisani and built in the years 1553-1555.

The villa is located just outside the medieval city walls. In her first steps on the Palladian style element superposed rows of columns which are crowned with a tympanum. The unity of the street front with four superior half-columns is in contrast to the two-storey loggia of the garden facade. As with the previously built Villa Cornaro also elements of urban and villa architecture linked. Between the storeys in a triglyph regular alternation of bucrania, roundels and triglyphs is led around.

The central space of the house is a hybrid of an entrance hall and reception hall, which is decorated with statues Alessandro Vittoria.

The building was declared in 1996 by UNESCO with other villas of Palladio World Heritage Site.