page_title: Villa
section_title: Venice
hierarchical_section_title: Villa / Italian Renaissance / Venice
caption_attribution_description: Palladios Villa Rotonda, Veneto, Italy
context_page_description: A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. Then they gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes. In modern parlance, "villa" can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to residences in the wildland–urban interface.
context_section_description: In the later 16th century in the northeastern Italian Peninsula the Palladian villas of the Veneto, designed by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), were built in Vicenza in the Republic of Venice. Palladio always designed his villas with reference to their setting. He often unified all the farm buildings into the architecture of his extended villas.
  Examples are the Villa Emo, the Villa Godi, the Villa Forni Cerato, the Villa Capra "La Rotonda", and Villa Foscari.
  The Villas are grouped into an association (Associazione Ville Venete) and offer touristic itineraries and accommodation possibilities.
caption: Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Vicenza, one of Palladio's most influential designs
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