Villa Marcello, Venetian villa in Levada, Piombino Dese, Italy

Villa Marcello is a 16th-century residence in Levada di Piombino Dese near Padua that combines Venetian architectural elements with carefully designed interior spaces. The building features extensive gardens and rooms decorated with stucco work and wall paintings depicting historical scenes.

Andrea Marcello built a modest hunting lodge here at the start of the 16th century; his sons raised the central block around the mid-century and the side barchesse followed. The property passed by inheritance to the Contarini and then the Morosini, who sold it in 1725 to the Maruzzi marquises for 19,000 ducats. The Maruzzi commissioned the interior frescoes and stuccoes. Lost at gambling by Count Sumarukoff, it was bought in 1847 by Count Girolamo Marcello, whose descendants still live there.

The double-height central hall has a Venetian terrazzo floor and a wooden balcony running around it. Giambattista Crosato painted the frescoes between 1750 and 1755 inside stucco frames designed by Giuseppe Zais: Olympus above, and scenes of Alexander the Great at the sides, among them Alexander covering the body of the defeated Darius with his cloak and the wedding of Alexander and Roxana.

The villa stands in Levada, a hamlet of Piombino Dese about 20 km north of Padua, reached from the A4 Padova Est exit. The complex is private and still lived in by the Marcello family, so visits must be arranged in advance rather than simply turning up. The grounds cover eight hectares, with the Italian garden and its box hedges, statues and polylobate fountain in front of the C-shaped main body.

In 1993 Carlo Verdone filmed scenes of Perdiamoci di vista here, and the villa was presented as being in Castelfranco Veneto; in 2015 it served as a location for Pietro Parolin's film Leoni.