| Campiglia dei Berici | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Veneto | |
| Territory | Venetian plain | |
| Altitude | 16 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 11.04 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 1.766 (year 2012) | |
| Name inhabitants | Campigliesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0444 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 36020 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | San Pietro (June 29) | |
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Campiglia dei Berici is a center of the Veneto.
To know
Small center of the Venetian plain known for the Repeta villa built on the ruins of a previous Palladian villa.
Background
The name of the municipality until 1867 was Campiglia. The derivation of the name is from "campus", which means cultivated field or flat land.
In medieval times, the territory was under the command of the bishops of Vicenza. The castle, which was built in the same period, was destroyed in 1194. The fief of Campiglia was sold in 1217 to the Repeta family following the fate of Vicenza.
The town suffered extensive destruction in the 16th century.
How to orient yourself
Campiglia dei Berici: full screen map.How to get
By plane
The nearest airports are:
- 1 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected].
- 2 Venice airport (Marco Polo), ☎ 39 041 2606111.
By car
Agugliaro motorway exit on the A31 motorway Valdastico
Agugliaro motorway exit on the A31 motorway ValdasticoHow to get around
What see
Villa Repeta
- 1 Villa Repeta-Mocenigo-Bressan, Via Piazza Vecchia, 1, @[email protected]. The Villa was built in its present aspect in 1672, incorporating the structures of a pre-existing villa designed by Andrea Palladio in about 1557-1560, which for a long time was considered destroyed by a fire. The seventeenth-century forms of the current Villa Repeta differ from the original Palladian ones: the Palladian villa for Mario Repeta (already considered destroyed in a fire on an unspecified date, between 1640 and 1672) - or at least the initial results of his construction site - was incorporated into the current new building.
- The Palladian villa Repeta, designed around 1557, can be reconstructed on the basis of the table of the Four Books of Architecture, even if recent studies question whether the engraving actually corresponds to the project but is rather the usual a posteriori theoretical reworking of a idea, in reality bound by strong pre-existences. In any case, the project is unique within Palladio's production: a single-storey Doric continuous portico structure, entirely developed horizontally around a rectangular courtyard. The only vertical emergencies, the two dovecotes at the corners of the complex.
- Without the usual hierarchy between the dominant manor and agricultural annexes, the design of the villa could be the result of a specific stimulus from the client and reflect the heterodox and egalitarian ideas of the Repeta family (Mario Repeta is reported to the Holy Office in 1569) protagonist of the Vicenza civil life of the sixteenth century.
- The current form of the villa was built in 1672 by Aeneas and Scipione Repeta.
- Ancient parish church. The church, founded in the 13th century, was rebuilt in 1679. It preserves a 16th century niche with a valuable altarpiece from the Tiepolo school and a terracotta Madonna.
- 2 Parish church of San Pietro. It is of contemporary construction; begun in the last decade of the nineteenth century, it was finished in 1925.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Il Giardinetto restaurant and pizzeria, Via Nazionale, 24, ☎ 39 0444 866006.
Where stay
Safety
- 3 Carabinieri, Via Roma 46 (Local station), ☎ 39 0444 866027.
Pharmacy
- 4 Corazza Pharmacy, Via Marpegane, 19, ☎ 39 0444 866034.
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 5 Italian post, Via Nazionale 5, ☎ 39 0444 766030.
Around
- Noventa Vicentina - The Venetian nobility between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries built numerous villas there.
- Pojana Maggiore —There is Villa Pojana, one of the first works by Andrea Palladio. Since 1996 it has been part, together with the other Palladian villas of the Veneto, of the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Itineraries
- Walled cities of Veneto. An itinerary to discover the strongholds and the history of Veneto.
Other projects
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