Villa Condulmer - Villa Veneta - Veneto - Italy - Luxury
Villa Condulmer - Villa Veneta - Veneto - Italy - Luxury
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Villa Condulmer - Venetian Villa of The '700 - Hotel, Resort & Golf Club
An Enchanted Place
A Venetian villa dating back to the first half of the 1700s which stands on an ancient convent of the 1500s. Since 1960 Villa Condulmer has been a 5-star hotel with a golf course, restaurant, swimming pool and American bar. Protected by the Fine Arts since 1930, it is a place of charm and absolute historical-cultural importance where Verdi wrote the definitive version of the “Traviata” on the piano, still present in the Hall. Here you can immerse yourself in history by crossing the hall and observing the signs of time painted on the frescoed walls.
Climbing the stairs at the entrance to the villa, you get lost in the huge spaces of the noble floor, from which you can see the royal suites that refer to the events of the artists from the world of music, cinema and politics who have stayed here. From Ronald Reagan, Lix Taylor, Mick Jagger to Placido Domingo and Sting to Vasco Rossi. Going up to the top floor, one imagines the great characters of our literature looking out of the windows, while looking at the park and garden that inspired those poems that have become the heritage of our present. You want to go back to the ground floor and walk through a new door to find out what else the eighteenth-century halls hide. As we leave the park, which looks like a forest with its centuries-old trees, awaits us. The fascinating architecture is reminiscent of art history books and everything refers to the typical feasts of the time with the tables set, smelling the cigar that a man smokes sitting on a wicker chair.
The luxurious hotel offers 47 rooms, including 20 classic double rooms, 12 executive junior suites, 7 garden suites and 8 historic suites. A restaurant with 230 indoor seats and an outdoor summer restaurant with 600 seats. In addition to the centuries-old park with lake and 16th-century ruins, the swimming pool open from 1 June open until September and the 18-hole + 9-hole golf club and club house. The services also include the heliport and spaces for events such as meetings, conferences and ceremonies.
Architecture and The Park
According to the dictates of the Venetian Villas of the eighteenth century, which sees the most grandiose examples of villas, clients and wealthy families, it is the representative space that is privileged, with the stately building preceded by the garden in an axial configuration. The main entrance, located on the eastern side at the end of an avenue, is characterized by a wrought iron gate with exposed brick pillars and ashlar finishes, all decorated with statues.
Following the driveway, after the central statue surrounded by a flower bed, the two monumental centuries-old trees represented by the Atlas cedar on the left and the Lebanese cedar on the right. The two majestic plants adorn the entrance to the stately building, which faces south on its main front, despite the fact that the two facades are identical to each other.
The ground floor is slightly raised, with four steps leading to the entrance, after which the visitor is welcomed by the large passing hall, the fulcrum of the building. The flooring is in Venetian terrazzo; walls and ceiling are adorned with valuable stuccoes; the two ancient and rare handmade Murano glass chandeliers are symmetrical and majestic. Also in the hall, you can admire 4 bucolic-themed frescoes, made around the mid-19th century by the painter Eugenio Moretti Larese. In particular, the second on the right, portrays the then owner of the Villa, Count Giovan Battista Tornielli, together with his friend Giuseppe Verdi. The composer at the invitation of the count, stayed in the Villa from March 1853, to relax after the much criticized “prima” of La Traviata.
In the central part of the hall a large arched door is flanked by a window on each side. Going up the stairs, symmetrical to each other, you arrive at the main floor, also characterized by a large living room with a Venetian terrazzo floor, an imposing majestic eighteenth-century Murano glass chandelier in the center of a valuable noble coat of arms, a protruding terrace, and a remarkable verticality.
The pride of the Villa is the large eighteenth-century park designed by the architect Sebatoni, where it is easy to relax in peaceful walks in the quiet.
The Hotel and The Historic Villa Suites
Over the years the hotel has acquired international fame, so much so that not a few celebrities of music, cinema or politics have stayed in the suites, some of which, the eight historic rooms of the central body of the Villa, are named after them. Among the prominent guests there are, in addition to the composer Giuseppe Verdi, who stayed at the time of Count Giovan Battista Tornielli, personalities of the caliber of Ronald Reagan, Liz Taylor, Richard Burton, Mick Jagger, Placido Domingo, Sting and many others..
