Villa Foscari – The Malcontenta

Venetian villa designed by Andrea Palladio in 1559

Villa Foscari, known as La Malcontenta, is a Venetian villa designed by Andrea Palladio in 1559 in Malcontenta, a town near Mira in the province of Venice, along the Brenta Canal, for the brothers Nicolò and Alvise Foscari, members of one of the most powerful families of the Venetian Republic. The residence has a majestic, almost regal character, unknown to all the other Palladian villas, to which the interior decoration, the work of Giovanni Battista Zelotti and Battista Franco, contributes.
In 1996, UNESCO included the villa in the list of World Heritage Sites, together with the other Palladian villas of the Veneto.