Villa Parco Bolasco

The Villa Revedin, then Rinaldi, then Bolasco Piccinelli (now owned by the University of Padua) was built by Count Francesco Revedin (1811-1869) between 1852 and 1865 on the area previously occupied by Paradiso, in Castelfranco Veneto, a complex of two palaces and an Italian garden razed to the ground by the last owner, Count Nicolò Corner Giustinian, around 1803. The design of the villa was entrusted to the architect Giambattista Meduna, famous for the various reconstruction and restoration works in Venice (Teatro della Fenice, S. Marco, Ca' d'Oro).

Inside the villa, the Meduna staircase, the ballroom by the painter Giacomo Casa da Conegliano and the stables are of considerable value , showing, in the architecture and in the innovative materials used (cast iron and iron), the equestrian passion of Count Revedin.

The complex is also characterized by the large English-style park, winner in the past of the title of "Most Beautiful Park in Italy". In addition to Meduna, other famous landscape architects of the time also contributed to its design; among them, Francesco Bagnara, Marc Guignon, to whom the project of the riding school is attributed, and Antonio Caregaro Negrin, who worked between 1869 and 1878 and to whom we owe, among other things, the designs of the greenhouse in Hispano-Moorish style and the cavana.

The park has an alternation of meadows, ponds, hills, groups of trees and is completed by the cavallerizza, an arena for horseback riding, crowned by 52 statues (44 of which are the work of the sculptor Orazio Marinali and his workshop and coming from the garden of Paradise) and introduced by two equestrian statues placed above high bases. The park is guarded by the dovecote tower at the west entrance and by the turret located near the boundary wall to the east and containing a fresco of fine workmanship, also remnants of the Paradise compendium.

Villa Parco Revedin Bolasco is in Castelfranco Veneto (TV), in via Borgo Treviso 73.
The garden, open to the public, can be accessed from Via Ospedale: from the pedestrian walkway located at the end of the dirt car park next to the Domenico Sartor residential centre for the elderly in Castelfranco Veneto (Casa Rebellato side). In case of bad weather, the University reserves the right, at its discretion, to close access to visitors.
For more information or reservations: +39 049 8273939 – prenotazioni@villaparcobolasco.it