UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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Location | Fratta Polesine, province of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy |
Part of | City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto |
Criteria | Cultural: (i), (ii) |
Reference | 712bis-024 |
Inscription | 1994 (18th Session) |
Extensions | 1996 |
Coordinates | 45°1′49.27″N 11°38′23.50″E / 45.0303528°N 11.6398611°E |
Villa Badoer is a villa in Fratta Polesine, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It was designed in 1556[1] by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio for the Venetian noble Francesco Badoer, and built between 1557 and 1563 on the site of a medieval castle, which guarded a bridge across a navigable canal. This was the first time Palladio used his fully developed temple pediment in the façade of a villa.
Villa Badoer has been part since 1996 of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto".[2]
The building is open to the public and one of the wings houses the Museo archeologico nazionale di Fratta Polesine, opened in 2009.[3]
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