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Villeggiatura

In the 1400's, before the shape of holiday was simple and, could say, austera, conduct in the confidentiality; it answered to the need of rifugiarsi in campaign, to contact with the nature, in a simple atmosphere and collection, ideal for dedicarsi to the study of the classics, the poetry and noble svaghi between gardens and garden. To the umanista it was enough to have a garden cheered from a bower, Fontana and some tree from fruit for sentirsi happy. To Venice, already in the XIV above all in XV century i city, noble notables, magistrates, merchants and men of letters tried ristoro and pleasant svago in the city small garden and the gardens and garden of the islands of the Giudecca and of They wall.

These short places greens will exercise always a strong fascination to the eyes of the veneziani that normally live tightened between the houses and the sea. In the amenity of these gardens and garden, in a refined petrarcheggiante and humanistic climate, the noble veneziani spirits loved to incontrarsi and to discuss about Greek and Latin classics, of art, literature and philosophy. These scholarly and refined encounter, between plants from fruit, flowers and exotic plants were called " philosophical garden ".

In the 1345 the Greater Council repealed the law that gives settant' to years vetava to the veneziani the land purchase in mainland take possession was thought dangerous for the emergency of Venice in how much the owners of such lands could have endured blackmails or to be corrupts from getlteman like the Scaligeri or the Carraresi, than in such a way they could influence Veneziana politics. Apartire from this date therefore, begins the Veneziana occupation of the entroterra, and gunga the reclamation work and putting to cultivation
of the land to quiei times much swampy.

The occupation of the firm earth increases considerable in the 500, after the military defeats and the broken off new opening commercial Atlantic. The immense agricultural estates rise that make head to one padronale, equipped villa of annexed peasant for the collection of the products and the residences of the peasants. At the same time, in the 500, the society divenne more veneziana family and, gaudente exhibitionist lover lusso begins to use the villa also for the holiday Normally the holiday lasted from the half of june to the end of July and then still from the October beginning until the half of November.

The nobleman, with the family and the continuation arrived in its
dwelling of campaign to edge of a boat, using the driven in one
interlaces of rivers, channels and run small of water. In the 1600's and above all in the 1700's, when the holiday becomes a social rituale, an imperative which it cannot be embezzled the one who that it holds to the own image, as it evidenced also Goldoni, then the villggiatura becomes the scope precipuo of the villa.In the holiday the imperative one was of mettersi in extension, showing the own riches, to astonish with lusso and sfarzo of festivities the teatrali banquets, receptions, concerts and rapprentazioni. Parallel the noble veneziani have dedicated gradually smaller attentions to agriculture and have instead profuse all their energies to embellish and to render their villas more and more magnificent, " their more rewarding business card ".