Don Lillo
An interesting site
This place is simply amazing! I knew about the Villa Capra (which is also known as the Rotunda), because of the film-opera "Don Giovanni" by Joseph Losey and I can assure you that this sixteenth-century villa (which was built by the architect Andrea Palladio) is a pure wonder! The best is when you go inside ...
First you see the beautiful ceiling statues, and then the beautiful gardens. Here nature is king: there are birds of many colors, plants, animals, etc.. Unfortunately the day I went I could only see the outside because it was all closed (the town only organizes tours in the summer
(check beforehand at the Padua Tourism Office.) Note that the channels that you see next to the house in Losey's film do not exist, they were added by the director.
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