Hotel Villa Soranzo Conestabile
Location: Italy > Veneto > Scorze
Address: Via Roma, 1
Category: 3-Star Hotel
Phones: +39041445027, +390415840088
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Francesco Scipione Fapanni wrote of Castellana road as The Beautiful Castellana, and Scorze is located along this ancient road. At the town center one finds the original homestead of one of the most powerful Venetian families, direct descendents of Doge Giovanni Soranzo, elected to his august office in 1312. Doge Soranzo was known as having the Midas touch, having recognized the importance of Venice as a maritime superpower, creating the legendary Arsenal of whom Dante wrote in his Commedia. Today the Villa is a three-story palace. Originally a sixteenth century building, built on or elaborated from an earlier edifice: two different cycles of Affreschi support this theory. During the second half of eighteenth century, Andrea Zorzi, the famous Architect, was called to amplify the Villa and...