RESEARCH

The task of the Regional Institute for the Villas of the Veneto, concludes with the publication of the book
"Villas of the Brenta - a comparison of two surveys 1750-2000." (Marsilio Editor), and it was possible to do a hands-on project, measuring, photographing and formalising all the surviving villas rising on the banks of the Brenta River.

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# ISTITUTO REGIONALE VILLE VENETE

# MARSILIO EDITORE

This book is a graphic work, published in 2000 and is composed of 110 plates which represent the buildings that appear along the river of the Riviera of the Brenta, from the route outlet in the Venetian lagoon at Lizza Fusina to come alongside the port in Padova- porta Portello.
In the central part there are illustrations of the buildings of the XVIII° century, a period of maximum splendor of the Serenissima and it is possible to admire many villas that no longer exist.. In the top and bottom margins there is compared the real existing situations where obvious changes have happened over time and with construction of new buildings.
The publication begins with an explanatory relationship of the author, architect Gianfranco R. Baldan, about the Riviera of the Brenta,
and how urban reality under methodology of work has accompanied the research during a number of years.