Villa Rizzardi

Villa Rizzardi

In Negrar , Valpolicella

Villa Rizzardi is located near the villa Rovereti-Rizzardi, built by Messedaglia around 1850 with a style of the fourteenth Venetian. The estate was purchased by the Rizzardi in 1649; Particularly beautiful is the garden, commissioned by Antonio Guizzardi in 1783 and designed by Luigi Trezza towards the end of the eighteenth century, taking inspiration from the English and Italian gardens, incorporating statues, avenues, stairs and compositions of plants; It represents one of the last Italian gardens with its prospects. The garden has an area of 54,000 square meters, with theater, temple, galleries, belvedere and more, built with the purpose of the show, modifying trees, hedges, watercourses. The villa was undergoing renovations in the middle of the nineteenth century on drawings by Filippo Messedaglia.