First up today is the Villa Cornaro, which is very much in the second style, with a majestic double-decker portico; an idea much copied in colonial America. Next comes the Villa Emo, which is of the long and low type with arcaded wings. It is perhaps the most sumptuous of Palladio’s villas and has frescoes by Zelotti, a colleague of Veronese. In the afternoon, visit the Villa Barbaro at Maser, which has to be one of Palladio’s most stunning buildings with its frescoes by Veronese and the temple inspired by the Pantheon in Rome.
