Villa Tiepolo Passi, Venetian villa and family estate in Carbonera, Italy.
Villa Tiepolo Passi is a 17th-century Venetian villa in the Castello locality of Carbonera, near Treviso, built on a terrace about 3 m above the surrounding land. Its Baroque facade has a central three-arched window with a balcony, two balconies on each side and six on the top floor, under a roof tympanum with an arch. Inside are 18th-century stuccoes and a ballroom with 17th-century frescoes of feigned architecture and mythological allegories.
Almorò Tiepolo, Procurator of San Marco and Senator of the Republic of Venice, commissioned the villa in the early 1600s as an economic base for the surrounding farmland. It later passed to the Venetian Valier family and, in the mid-19th century, to the Counts Passi de Preposulo by inheritance. In 2010 it became the seat of the Association of Veneto Villas, and in early summer 2017 it hosted the wedding of Gian Luca Passi and American actress Jessica Chastain.
The villa's name recalls Almorò Tiepolo, who commissioned it in the early 1600s; it passed by inheritance to the Counts Passi de Preposulo in the mid-1800s, whose family still lives there. The noble floor's ballroom has 17th-century frescoes with painted architecture and mythological allegories; the historian Domenico Maria Federici records that Pietro Antonio Cerva, a celebrated perspectivist from Bologna, worked extensively in the palace. Since 2010 the villa has housed the Association of Veneto Villas.
The villa is open to visitors and is still lived in by the Passi de Preposulo family, so visits are organised as guided tours. It stands on a terrace about 3 m above the surrounding countryside in the Castello locality of Carbonera, in the province of Treviso. The garden is divided into three parts: an Italian-style garden with box hedges, a stone fountain and a fish pond, flanked by an English romantic park.
The villa's name recalls the Piovenzan stream, which still runs past the old mill wheel near the site of the earlier chapel. That first chapel burned almost entirely in 1774, and the owners rebuilt it that same year in the garden's southwest corner, giving it two entrances: a monumental one onto the road for the people and another onto the garden for the family.
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