Villa Ferretti Angeli, Renaissance villa in Dolo, Italy

Villa Ferretti Angeli is a residence in Dolo with balanced architectural design, where a colonnade, wine cellar, stable, and chapel connect to the main building. The entire complex shows the typical layout of Venetian merchant country houses, where living spaces and working functions sit close together.

The Venetian branch of the Ferretti family, nobles from Vicenza, commissioned the villa at the end of the 16th century from Vincenzo Scamozzi, who delivered the drawings on 12 August 1596. Work finished in 1600, as an inscription under the pediment of the courtyard facade records together with the patron's name. In the 19th century the villa passed to the Mocenigo family, and in 1961 Montedison's Sidecison bought it and restored it to its original appearance.

The villa's name records its successive owners: the Ferretti of Vicenza who commissioned it, then the Rigoni and Angeli families, and from the 19th century the Venetian Mocenigo, some of whom are still buried in the private chapel. The chapel, built together with the villa though absent from Scamozzi's plan, repeats the facade's pilasters, simplified door and window frames and triangular pediment.

The building is located in Dolo and currently functions as a trade school, so visits outside opening hours are limited. Planning a visit beforehand by checking access times is recommended for those interested in seeing the interiors.

The villa was bought in 1961 by Sidecison of the Montedison group, which restored it to its original appearance. From then until 1993 it housed the Liceo scientifico statale "Galileo Galilei"; it now belongs to the Province of Venice and hosts the provincial direction of EnAIP Veneto, a vocational training body.