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{{short description|Palladian villa in province of Verona, northern Italy}}
{{Coord|45|29|58|N|10|55|32|E|type:landmark|display=title}}▼
{{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site
[[Image:Villa Serego_sezione_Bertotti Scamozzi 1781.jpg|thumb|300px|Villa Serego, section drawn by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi in 1781.]]▼
| image = VillaSarego20110707-1.jpg
'''Villa Serego''' or '''Villa Sarego''' is a [[Palladian]] villa at Santa Sofia di Pedemonte, [[San Pietro in Cariano]] in the [[province of Verona]], northern [[Italy]]. It was built for the aristocratic [[Sarego family]], and designed by [[Andrea Palladio]]. The villa is distinctive for its use of [[rustication (architecture)|rusticated]] columns of the [[Ionic order]].▼
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| caption = Villa Serego
| location = [[San Pietro in Cariano]], [[Province of Verona]], [[Veneto]], [[Italy]]
| part_of = [[City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto]]
| criteria = {{UNESCO WHS type|(i), (ii)}}(i), (ii)
| ID = 712bis-024
▲| coordinates = {{Coord|45|29|58|N|10|55|32|E|type:landmark|display=title, inline|format=dms}}
| year = 1994
| extension = 1996
| area = {{convert|2.78|ha|acre|abbr=on}}
| locmapin = Italy Veneto#Italy
| map_caption =
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▲'''Villa Serego''' or '''Villa Sarego''' is a [[Palladian]] villa at Santa Sofia di Pedemonte, [[San Pietro in Cariano]] in the [[province of Verona]], northern [[Italy]]. It was built for the aristocratic [[Sarego family]], and designed by Italian Renaissance architect [[Andrea Palladio]]. The villa is distinctive for its use of [[rustication (architecture)|rusticated]] columns of the [[Ionic order]].
== History ==
In 1857 further construction took place, which makes the villa appear finished but does not fully respect the original design.▼
The villa was commissioned by the Venetian nobleman [[Marcantonio Sarego]] for an estate which came into his possession in 1552.<ref>[http://www.cisapalladio.org/veneto/scheda.php?sezione=4&architettura=25&lingua=e www.cisapalladio.org website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219014224/http://www.cisapalladio.org/veneto/scheda.php?sezione=4&architettura=25&lingua=e |date=December 19, 2007 }} accessed December 2008</ref> A rough date for its execution is c. 1560–1570. A plan of the building appears in Palladio's ''[[I quattro libri dell'architettura]]'' of 1570, but it relates to a larger project than was actually completed. A habitable building is known to have existed by 1572 from Marcantonio's will of that date, but he died leaving some of the project as little more than foundations.
▲In 1857, further construction took place, which makes the villa appear finished but does not fully respect the original design.
== Architecture ==
Two limestone sculptures stand surrounded by semi-circular hedges in front of the villa. They appear to be the deities [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]] (with attributes of the hunt) and [[Apollo]] (holding a harp), symbolic of the villa being both a rural retreat and a refuge for culture and beauty.
The villa is built around a courtyard, which is derived from the [[Atrium (architecture)|atrium]] of [[Roman villa]]s. Palladio was familiar with such designs from
The colossal columns of the courtyard are executed in a rough aesthetic
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Villa Serego_pianta_Bertotti Scamozzi 1781.jpg|Floor plan (Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, 1781)
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==Conservation==
In 1996, [[UNESCO]] included the villa
It is not open to the public.
==References ==▼
{{Reflist}}▼
*{{cite book|last= Wundram|first=Manfred|title=Andrea Palladio 1508-1580, Architect between the Renaissance and Baroque|publisher= [[Taschen]]|location=[[Cologne]]|year= 1993|isbn=3-828-0271-9 |pages=pp.202-209 }}▼
==See also==
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* [[Palladian architecture]]
▲{{Palladian Villas}}
▲{{Reflist}}
▲*{{cite book|last= Wundram|first=Manfred|title=Andrea Palladio 1508-1580, Architect between the Renaissance and Baroque|publisher= [[Taschen]]|location=[[Cologne]]|year= 1993|isbn=3-
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