In the first wave of Venetian nobility building villas in Este, in the 16th century, more than one purchased an important lot along via Garibaldi, near the Cathedral.
To the small palace, dating from the 17th century, later additions have been made, but on one side the garden still overlooks.
The internal distribution reflects the classic modules of the Venetian villa, with a central hallway repeated at various levels and rooms on either side. Attached to the back is an "L"-shaped volume, which has resulted in a variation from the canonical symmetry of the façades. A house that has maintained a certain nobility inside, but is enriched by an external view that is now rare, right in the city, and beautifully maintained. Gardens like this invite you to sit every day in a different spot and look around... those equipped have a sketchbook and three or four pencils... or a good camera... to capture, for example, a small hypogeum, between sacred and profane (the ancient icehouse, the fridge of the time).
Between the 17th and 18th centuries, the large lot of the Sartori Borotto was divided into two asymmetric parts: for the palace on the square, a lot was carved out that still corresponds today to the existing walled garden, while the rest became a large brolo that seems connected to the urban villa on via Garibaldi (corresponding today to the lot of the elementary school).
At the beginning of the 19th century, the separation of the Sartori Borotto property into many parts seems consolidated: the palace on Piazza Trento, with its garden, the lateral building, on Piazza Trento (now rebuilt as municipal housing), the internal lots, free and not connected to the rest (where the elementary school will then be built), the palace on via Garibaldi, the nearby L-shaped building, both with a modest courtyard pertaining to them.
