Villa Lebrecht, Venetian villa in San Floriano, San Pietro in Cariano, Italy

Villa Lebrecht is a Venetian villa in San Floriano, San Pietro in Cariano, originating from a 15th-century building of the Fumanelli family and remodelled in eclectic style by architect Giacomo Franco, with work completed in 1868. Its long south facade keeps neoclassical French windows with balustrades, while three eclectic avant-corps, the central one with three arches on decorated pilasters and a pierced rectangular pediment, break the front.

The villa grew from a 15th-century building of the Fumanelli family, who already held episcopal lands in San Floriano in the 14th century. In the first half of the 16th century it was enlarged and decorated; a painted frieze of cupids with Greek inscriptions survives, probably commissioned by the physician brothers Antonio and Ludovico Fumanelli. It passed by inheritance to Rolandino Maffei, who sold it in 1629 to Lorenzo Ottolini, whose merchant family became counts in 1697 and kept it until the early 19th century. Giacomo Franco rebuilt it eclectically, completed in 1868.

The villa is also known as Villa Eugenia, after Eugenia Vitali Lebrecht, wife of Guglielmo Lebrecht, who bought it in 1881. A friend of Gabriele D'Annunzio, she staged Sophocles' Antigone here in 1905 and Aeschylus' Oresteia in 1906, with sets by Angelo Dall'Oca Bianca and costumes inspired by Heinrich Schliemann's finds at Mycenae.

The University of Verona now uses this house as a teaching center for viticulture and wine studies. Visitors should check in advance whether tours are possible since it functions as an active university facility.

The first floor displays the most refined decorations, featuring large windows and balustrades designed during the 19th-century renovation. These refined details come from a later layer of the house's history.