Palladio
Villa Rotonda
The Villa Rotonda is featured on our Vicenza & Villa Rotonda Tour that operates as a private tour.
The Villa Rotonda by Andrea Palladio represents the epitome of Palladio's
architecture: "Form formed by the landscape and forming the landscape".
For centuries, the Villa Rotonda by Palladio has aroused the admirations
of scholars and laymen, and imitations can be found the world-over.
The name it has always be known as "La Rotonda" embodies the
villa's essence: it is conceived to be viewed from all sides and even
so that one can look out from it to allow the gaze to take in a panorama
of 360°.
Like many Palladio buildings, for the Villa Rotonda, Palladio drew
inspiration from his studies of the Pantheon in Rome, which in ancient
times also was known as "La Rotonda".
Although, "La Rotonda" is known as the Villa Rotonda, in
his four books of architecture Andrea Palladio classified this building
as a Palazzo because of its close proximity to the city of Vicenza,
it's position perched upon a hill and for the fact that this building
has no attachment to the land.
In fact, the Villa Rotonda, was not a villa-farm, but was designed
to be a pleasure palace where Paolo Almerico, the patron of the Villa
Rotonda would entertain his guests.
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