Tour Plan :

09:00 Meeting with your Driver in Venice Piazzale Roma and starting the Tour;

10:00 Here you are in Monselice, an interesting Medieval Town. The Castle of Monselice is a whole building composed of four principal nuclei set up between the 11th and 16th century. The most ancient part, on the right into of the main entrance, is the Castelletto, with the annexe Casa Romanica, built up between the 11th and 12th century. On the left, we can see the massive outline of the Tower of Ezzelino (13th century). In the middle, as a nucleus of connection between the two existing buildings, the Palazzo Marcello was built in the 15th century. Finally the Castle Library which stands on the vast flat space before the tower of Ezzelino, was built at the end of the 16th century. The visit takes about 1 our.

11:00 You walk long a medieval road, in the upper part of the Rocca of Monselice a wonderful sight opens before us; 6 small churches line the stairway which runs parallel to the cobbled path, with a seventh, St. George's, at the top, bringing the walkway to a close. These seven votive churches bearing the names of churches in Rome, were granted, by Pope Paul V in 1605, the privilege of a "full pardon to pilgrims visiting the Sanctuary". This veritable holy city in miniature was built by the Duodo Family at the beginning of the 16th century to a design by the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi. Further up the Villa, country residence of the noble Duodo. It was built in two successive stages, from 1593 to 1740.Today Villa Duodo is used as a branch of the University of Padova.

11:45Visit of "Il Filò delle Vigne winery", located in the village of Baone. a responsable will make an introduction of the Family end the winery history, a walk along the vineyard,visit of the wine cellar and wine tasting.

13:30 Visit and light lunch with local products at "IL PIANZO" winery, in the area of Galzignano Terme.

15:00 Visit of the Garden of Villa Barbarigo. VALSANZIBIO ranges among the most important and unspoiled baroque gardens in the world. It was achieved in 1669 by the Venetian nobleman Zuane Francesco Barbarigo. His son Gregorio, a Cardinal and future Saint, inspired the symbolic meaning of the plan drawn by Luigi Bernini, top Vatican architect and fountain expert. Sixty full size statues, mainly due to Enrico Merengo, and sixty more different sculptures were integrated into a world of architectures, streams, fountains, water jokes and fish ponds, between hundreds of different trees and over an area of forty acres. All this was planned as an allegory of man's progress towards his own perfectibility or salvation and such itinerary ends right in front of the Villa. The Garden of Valsanzibio has preserved all its original features unaltered thanks the unceasing and careful attention received first of all by six successive generations of Barbarigo since its very creation in 1669 . At theyr extinction, in 1804, Nobile Marco Antonio Michiel was appointed heir and he was succeeded in 1835 by Counts Martinengo in 1835 and forty years later by Counts Donà dalle Rose. Since 1929 three successive generations of Nobili Pizzoni Ardemani enjoied the property of the estate and garden. They mended all ravages caused by military occupation and forced neglect during world war two and have recently restored all fountains, fish ponds, water jokes, cascades and streams thet is thirty three water points that give so special a character to this monumental garden.

16:00 Visit and tasting extra vergin olive oil at the the "Colli del Poeta" olive-press, where a responsable will describe all the processing of the olive oil.

16:30 Leaving the Euganean Hills area.

17:30 back to Venice Piazzale Roma

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