Facade, facing Brenta canal
Doorway
Caryatids
Portego, call between front door, behind, and garden door, ahead
The stables, across the garden from the villa
Ponds, garden, stables
Coffee House sitting on fake hill that housed the ice-house to keep them cool in summer.
Coffee House
Oculus of exedra
Tower, in the center of the maze of hedges. Tower has double helix stairways for infinite number of views
One of the views
Autumn leaves
Facade of stable
Pediment of facade
Orangerie. There were several buildings where citrus could be grown year-round
Orangerie, interior
Grow room with arbor
Baroque trees on fire
Every corner is a "view"
Smoldering tree
One of two interior courtyards in the villa itself; you can see through to the other.
Bedroom of Amalia of Bavaria, wife of Eugene Beauharnais, stepson of Napoleon.
Silk wall covering in Amalia's bedroom.
Napoleonic room; frescoes of the great palace gardens of Europe; model of the maze and tower.
Looking at villa from stable.
Ever had a day like that?
Yellow leaves
Baroque Farrah Fawcett?
Portego between the two interior courtyards
Stables, gardeners building to the right, and beyond, the snow-covered mountains of the Veneto
Red tree