Holiday rentals in Italy - villa apartments between Padua and Venice

Providing holiday rentals in Italy, these villa apartments between Padua and Venice lie within ancient parklands on a working farm.

The bedroom has joinable twin beds, bedside tables, wardrobe, two chairs and a desk. The living room has a complete kitchenette with refrigerator, oven and stove, a dining table with four chairs, kitchenware and tableware. There is a double sofa bed, two small tables and a wardrobe. The bathroom has a shower, WC, washbasin and bidet.

The fourth of these villa apartments between Padua and Venice, La Serra is a 50sqm apartment in the centuries-old winter limonaia of the villa. A detached building, it has access from the garden and a glass wall to the south. There is central heating, air conditioning, screen windows, TV, telephone, with all laundry and weekly cleaning included. It comprises entrance hall, living room, bedroom and bathroom. Comfortable for 2/5 guests, it is suitable for wheelchair users. The bedroom has joinable twin beds, bedside tables, a single sofa bed for the third/fifth guest, wardrobe and chairs. The living room has a complete kitchenette with refrigerator, oven and stove, dining table with four chairs, kitchenware, tableware, a double sofa bed and small table. The bathroom has a shower, WC, washbasin and bidet.

Depending on the season weekly prices for Le Magnolie range from €1120 to €1470, for Il Fogher from €770 to €980 and for Il Portico and La Serra from €455 to €560. Daily prices for La Magnolie range from €160 to €210, for Il Fogher from €110 to €140 and for Il Portico and La Serra from €65 to €80.

High season: 31/05 - 29/08
Mid season: 22/03 - 30/05, 30/08 - 26/09, 20/12 - 06/01/09
Low season: 07/01 - 21/03, 21/09-19/12

Prices include: utilities, heating, air conditioning, house linen and weekly cleaning, using of swimming pool, bicycles, table tennis and the large park with garden furniture.

The setting for these holiday rentals in Italy, Villa Selvatico itself is a Venetian Villa built at the end of the 15th Century on the foundations of a medieval castle. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the castle owners were the rich and powerful Speronella Dalesmanin and her infamous son Jacopo da Sant'Andrea, mentioned in Dante's Inferno.

This pre-Palladian villa is a typical old country house, where the nobles would spend their summer vacation and from which they ran their estates. The main building has a symmetrical façade, with simple and elegant similar faces enriched by round arch doorways. On the ground and on the first floors there are large central halls that bisect the villa from north to south, with smaller rooms all around. As a marble tablet on the northern façade recalls, in 1792 a first restoration of the villa ended, during which time it was enlarged with the construction of the barchessa, the barco, the limonaia and other smaller rural buildings.

The park, of more than three hectares, stretches around these holiday rentals in Italy, an ancient woodland surrounded by the river Tergola and by canals, such as the ancient peschiera, that draw water from the river. Here it is nice to rest under the shade of the trees and to take a walk in the brolo or along the river edge, enjoying the peace of the countryside and discovering the animals in the neighbouring 60-hectare farm. Cereals, soy bean and sugar beet are cultivated on the farm and, in the small vegetable garden and orchard, the guests can freely pick vegetables and fruit in season.

These villa apartments between Padua and Venice provide an excellent base for exploring the Veneto region and further afield. The nearest town is Padua, 12 km away, with its medieval squares and daily markets. There is the Prà della Valle square (the largest neo-Classical square in Europe); the University, founded in 1222; the frescoes created by Giotto and Mantegna; the old ghetto; the basilicas of San Antonio and San Giustina and much more.

Venice is only 30 km away from these holiday rentals in Italy, reachable in 30 minutes by car or by train from the nearby railway station in Dolo. Or you could take a boat along the Riviera del Brenta, which begins 7km away from the Villa. More than 50 villas were built along the river from the 16th Century to the 18th Century by the Venetian nobles. Nowadays some of these villas, designed by architects such as Palladio, Scamozzi, Frigimelica and painted by artists such as Benedetto Caliari, Jacopo Guarana and the Tiepolos, are open to visitors.

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About 40 km away from these holiday rentals in Italy is Vicenza, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and famous for the Olympic Theatre, the town palaces and the country houses designed by Palladio. And there is Treviso, a medieval town rich in rivers and watermills within its centro storico. Each is reachable for a daily visit. Verona is 85 km away by motorway (its Roman Arena hosts opera during the summer), and not far from Verona is Lake Garda.

As well as the main cities, it is also worth visiting the little towns: the medieval walled towns of Castelfranco Veneto and Cittadella; Bassano with its famous wooden bridge; Asolo with the Canova Temple; the impressive Villa Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta, towards the north; the walled towns of Este and Montagnana; the Monselice citadel; the charming Arquà Petrarca, the Poet's village; the 17th century park of Villa Barbarigo in Valsanzibio, towards the south. All these places are within 30km of these villa apartments between Padua and Venice.

If you want to spend a day at the seaside there is Sottomarina, with the nearby fishermen's town of Chioggia, half an hour away by car, and Jesolo, about an hour. And if you want to ski, San Martino di Castrozza and Cortina, the most attractive spots in the Dolomites, are within two hours by car.

You’ll find these villa apartments between Padua and Venice easy to reach from the main highways, airports or rail links. Contact your hosts for more on these holiday rentals in Italy.