Start today with a driveto Maser and visit one of Andrea Palladio’s finest villas, the Villa Barbaro,with frescoes by Veronese. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it becamefashionable for wealthy Venetians to retire for the summer to the countrysidearound Venice and Palladio was the architect of choice, being the first personto resurrect classical architecture, a trend which was to be followed all overEurope and America for the next three centuries. Within the grounds of theVilla, you will be able to stop at a lovely old farmhouse for a light lunch. Afterlunch, you will be driven to Treviso, a beautiful walled city with canals,arcades and many fine buildings but also home to that most famous of Italiandesserts, Tiramisu! You will be taken to one of the oldest bakeries in town,where you will have a short but intensive lesson in the preparation of thislocal delicacy.
