Saturday, September 17: Asolo, Villa Barbero, Villa Emo
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Asolo curves.
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Our energetic and enthusiastic tour guide, Rita.
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Villa Barbero, my favorite. In fact I have dubbed myself (with no justification) Countess Barbero.
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Villa Emo - huge and hard to take in, even from a distance.
Sunday, September 18: Castelfranco, Treviso, Brassono del Grappa
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A lamp and an arch.
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Today, the bountiful lady dispense water. Legend has it that in times past one breast gave forth red wine, the other white wine. This is a copy of the original.
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A kindly eroded lion.
Monday, September 19: Villa Trissino-Marzotto and Marostica
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Lunch in the kitchen: wonderful bread, salami, cheese, red and white wine, mineral water and later ... grappa-infused cherries to put on vanilla ice cream.
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Defining overgrown.
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Overlooking the town. Note! No umbrellas!
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Marostica castle/fortress and amazing hill-crawling walls.
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Flowers and arches.
Tuesday, September 20: Villa Foscari, Villa Pisani, Brenta River and dinner at Rita's
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Backyard of Villa Foscari. Now that's a lawn mowing challenge.
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Lovely ladies along the Brenta River.
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He looks relaxed, even in the face of the danger that is Villa Pisani.
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A modest little outbuilding surrounded by a moat at Villa Pisani.
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Next year at Villa Cornaro!
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A tableful of Tostellos.
Wednesday, September 21: Vicenza, Villa Rotonda, Teatro Olimpico, Villa Querini-Stampala (Working villa where we had dinner)
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The jolly figure in the center of La Rotonda.
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Pillar through shadows of light.
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Light and shadow, arch and pointed roof.
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La Rotonda.
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At the end of the street, Palladio's blue-roofed (secular) basilica.
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Teatro Olimpico - the central stage opening. It stretches back a good 40 feet.
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Villa Querini-Stampalia, a working villa (not Palladio's) where we had a wonderful dinner.
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The view of the villa through the arch of the entryway.
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A contemporary painting of the villa hangs in its main room on the ground floor.
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Venetian glass chandelier - ubiquitous in Veneto!
Thursday, September 22: Villa Godi, Arqua Petrarca, Villa Barbarigo's garden & Armando, Elisa and Ricardo!
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Another in the series of Venetian chandelier. This from our villa-hotel's breakfast room.
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Our villa on a hill.
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Grapes in our villa's garden. Harvest is nigh.
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Arches of Godi.
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Three-headed something!
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Possibly Petrarch?
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Mirrored gate at Villa Barbarigo.
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Armando, Elisa and Ricardo.
Friday, September 23: Venice
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The lion of Venice. I wonder when Venice decided the lion was its symbol, and how exactly they decided that?
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On the exterior of the Doge's Palace, support-group knight-style.
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Rose-colored lenses for the streetlights make it all seem all right.
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A gondolier in trademark blue-and-white striped shirt. This is NOT another picture of a rose streetlight, or beautiful villas standing stately over the canal.
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Gray and silver, sunset never comes. The light bounces from wave to wave and is never dissipated. This is my favorite picture of Venice.
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I got lucky with the pink mirrored in the canal. Believe me, that was not planned. Venice blows you shy kisses like this.