The Villa and Park Miari de Cumani complex, a Villa-Castle with an attached 19th-century Romantic Park, is located south of the Province of Padua and the Euganean Hills, immersed in a vast agricultural landscape.
The neo-Gothic and Venetian style Villa-Castle has medieval origins: the first written documentation from the 14th century narrates of a house-tower, the initial settlement nucleus of the Cumani family who arrived at the estate in the second half of the 13th century.
Over the centuries, the villa has transformed from a large agricultural residence to a noble and bourgeois villa: in the 1970s, Antonia Miari de Cumani decided to make ten rooms of the villa accessible to the public, showcasing numerous relics and memories of the families and individuals who lived on the estate.
The Park, which covers an area of eight hectares, dates back to 1856, when Osvaldo Torquato Paoletti, a landscape architect from the Jappelli school, received the commission from Count Felice Miari to design a romantic-style park and an English garden, replacing the pre-existing Brolo.
The Park, thanks to multiple and suggestive natural scenographies amplified or softened by the day’s light, shadows or weather conditions, can evoke truly extraordinary emotions in visitors. Within it, immersed in nature, are also unique architectural structures including a Nymphaeum, a neoclassical temple dedicated to Camillo Benso Count of Cavour, and a Swiss Chalet. There are also rare specimens of Taxodium distichum, Fagus sylvatica, and Austrian black pine, as well as centuries-old trees.
