Barchessa Contarini

Whether to come to sojourn: 


For the hospitality of a calm ancient abode, for the serenity that offers the surrounding landscape, for the facility of connection with the Venetian greatest cities of art as Venice and Padua. 
to taste wines typical of the hills of the hinterland Euganeo, to relax in the healthy and iodized sea of the Sottomarina, for the ecological walks in bicycle along the banks and the shores of the river Bacchiglione. 

Complex architectural risalente at the end of the 1500 beginnings 1600, constituted by Main Villa, Barchessa and other nearness. 
It rises along the left shore of the river Bacchiglione.

The first historical documents go up again to 1617, when Francis Contarini attorney of S. Marco, report its ownerships of Ronchi of Pontelongo, consistent in" Sunday Factories and from workers, cortivo and brolo", over that from a good number of fields.

In 1661 his/her Brothers Zuani and Alvise Contarini, ridichiarano the ownership "Sunday House with his/her different Factories and Brolo." 


The possessions will be reinstated by the Contarinis up to 1740, but in 1782 with will of Nicolò Contarini, part of the good of this family to Giacomo and Zuandomenico Almarò Tiepolo (and under the name of Almarò we find again them in the inventory 1809 Napoleonico).

This noble family would have built in 1445, a rural church entitled to S. Maria Maddalena, that passed to the Contarinis in 1695 and subsequently to the family I Lift up. 
Left in abandonment, the place of cult was demolished in 1885. 

Once this building represented an important point of reference for the river transports that went up again the river Bacchiglione from the Venetian lagoon, transporting commodities and passengers in the hinterland up to the necks Euganei and contrary.

This in fact it is one of the residences of the Venetian nobility that between the XV and the XVI century, it acquired great ownerships in firm earth to freely deal and to spend vacations in the verdant Venetian lowland

The principal building is constituted from the main Villa, currently in phase of restauration, from the sober and very ladylike lines.

it is a construction of square plant, with strata roof, with brand plain, indented moulding, as well as abstruse that they adorn the whole of it.

Divided in three plans, the plan noble entertains a central saloon adorned by portals framed in stone of Istria, that superior understands rooms with garrets in beam to sight and the plain earth we find a marvelous wine cellar with ceiling sustained from arcades and a superb kitchen with an ancient hearth.

Behind the threshing floor or courtyard, completely surrounded by tall boundaries and hedges of laurel on I break down it, the barchessa completely restored you/he/she is characterized, as the villa, from a moulding indented under the leaning one of the roof.

The eight arcs that are followed, more the others two to the sides create a tall parvis from the trusses in wood paved in stone, here the plan superior once is leaned out reserved to barn and stores, now turned to inn with six great rooms with bath, luxuriously you furnish. 

To the plain earth a great room for banquets and meeting, an equipped kitchen, a store, deprived parking lot and garden with nibbled you. 
On the tall east, attached to the barchessa residence of the actual owners is been, drawn by the old abode of the sharecroppers.

Push it here to know whether to reach us

Place Pontelongo (PD) Street S. Valentino 57, left bank of the river Bacchiglione to 30 Kms from Venice (attainable with train in 1 now in the Square S.Lucia). 
To 25 Kms from Padua to 20 Kms from Chioggia and Sottomarina, to 27 Kms from Abano and Montegrotto Terme and to 35 Kms from The airport in Venice (possibility of personalized transport). 
As to reach Pontelongo: 
From Padua, S.S. 516 actually to it Rains of Sack for Pontelongo other 5 Kms. 
From Venice, S.P. 309 Romeas gone out Codevigo, indications for Pontelongo. 
From Bologna, highway A13 gone out Monselice, indication for Chioggia gone out Pontelongo, Piove di Sacco