The first news about the complex that today is called Villa Benvenuti dates back to the early 16th century, when the Venetian patron Alvise Cornaro inherited from his uncle Alvise Angeglieri the estate on the hill overlooking Este. Cornaro decided not only to create a building but also to work on the garden to establish an open-air theater in the Greek style.
He entrusted the task to the Veronese architect Gian Maria Falconetto, of whose intervention the triumphal arch remains.
At the beginning of the 1700s, the property passed to the Farsetti family. The enlargement of what was Cornaro's small building into a form similar to the current one is probably due to the Farsetti.
The arrangement of the Park in its current forms was initiated in the mid-1800s by Adolfo Benvenuti: it is likely that he entrusted the task to Giuseppe Jappelli. In addition to the park, the intervention also involved the pine forest above, which constitutes a peculiar profile of the city of Este.
Excellences of the villa: Triumphal arch attributed to Falconetto; Park whose architecture is attributed to Giuseppe Jappelli Villa, greenhouse, and stables.
