Rotonda di Badoere, Barchessa complex in Morgano, Italy
Rotonda di Badoere is a barchessa in Badoere di Morgano: a long portico of two semicircles interrupted by the public road SP 68 "di Istrana", enclosing the circular Piazza Indipendenza. The western wing, the noble part, is attributed to a Riccati-school architect, perhaps Francesco Maria Preti; the eastern wing is plainer. The complex ends with the small church of Sant'Antonio (1645).
The Badoer patricians held property at Zeruol di Sopra, as Badoere was then called, from 1566. In 1688 they set up a market and had the two barchesse built to enclose its area; the Rotonda already appears laid out on a 1714 map, which moved its dating back from the 1756 once proposed. Villa and barchesse later passed by inheritance to the Marcello, and on the evening of 8 June 1920 the villa was destroyed by peasants of the Leghe Bianche protesting against Count Giuseppe Marcello.
The western colonnade once housed shops and craft workshops, while the eastern section provided homes for farm workers. It served as a meeting point for merchants and artisans from across the region.
The two semicircles are cut by the SP 68 "di Istrana" road, so traffic passes between them; piazza Indipendenza inside is the village core and is reached on foot. The complex lies in Badoere di Morgano, in the province of Treviso, and the small church of Sant'Antonio (1645) closes the eastern end.
The two halves of the Rotonda were not built for the same users: the western barchessa held shops, the eastern one housed farm labourers. The complex closes with the small church of Sant'Antonio, dated 1645. A 1714 map already shows the Rotonda laid out, pushing its date back from the 1756 once commonly cited.
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