Villa Foscarini Rossi is a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

-style aristocratic rural palace located at Via Doge Pisani 1/2, along the

Riviera del Brenta The Riviera del Brenta is an area of the Metropolitan City of Venice of particular tourist-cultural interest due to the great architectural heritage of the Venetian villas built between the 15th and 18th centuries by the nobles of the Venetian Rep ...

, at

Stra Stra is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy. It is south of SR11. It is the location of the famed Villa Pisani Villa Pisani at Stra refers to the monumental, late-Baroque rural palace located along the Bre ...

on the mainland of the

Veneto Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire unt ...

, northern Italy. The Villa now houses a museum of shoes (

Museo Rossimoda della Calzatura The Museo Rossimoda della calzatura ''trans. Rossimoda Museum of the Shoe'' is located in Villa Foscarini Rossi at Stra, which lies along the Riviera del Brenta in the mainland portion of the province of Venice, Italy. History The Museum was foun ...

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Construction was begun in 1602, commissioned by the Venetian admiral

Jacopo Foscarini Jacopo (also Iacopo) is a masculine Italian given name, derivant from Latin ''Iacōbus''. It is an Italian variant of Giacomo. * Jacopo Aconcio (), Italian religious reformer * Jacopo Bassano (1592), Italian painter * Iacopo Barsotti (1921–1987), ...

. An additional block was built later, called the ''Foresteria'', to house visiting guests. The house is notable for the frescoes in the main salon, painted in 1652 by

Domenico de’ Bruni Domenico Bruni (c. 1600–1666) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and '' comune'' in the region of Lombardy ...

and

Pietro Liberi Pietro (Libertino) Liberi (1605 – 18 October 1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, active mainly in Venice and the Veneto. Biography Liberi was born in Padua, his earliest training was with Alessandro Varotari (''il Padovanino''). ...

to celebrate the wedding (a year before) of Giambattista Foscarini and Chiara Soranzo. With the fall of the Venetian republic, the villa was sold to various owners. In the 19th century, the shoe manufacturer, Luigino Rossi, pursued a refurbishment. In 1995, the complex was open to visitors. The main building houses the Museo della Calzatura, while the Foresteria is used for cultural events and meetings.Consorzio Terme Euganee
description of the Villa.

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