... listen for the "Dottore" singings of newly graduated students of the famous old university founded in 1222. If you return by bus you can also get off and visit the Palazzi along the Brenta Canal. http://lynnnnick.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/of-villas-and-palazzi-from-mantua-to.html ... more

... child then and found it boring, but all adults enjoyed it very much (and I am sure I would enjoy it if I took it now). As I recall, the trip takes the whole day. You get to visit the beautiful Villa Pisani and see other villas from the outside ... more

... as I had read on the Brenta forum - don't remember if on the Italian one or this one - that it is rather boring and you see few villas. I'm glad we did as we were albe to' stop where we wanted and visit the villas we wanted. Bye ... more

... bus to some of the villas (& then back). If so which bus, from Piazza Roma??, and is there a website which shows their times there and back please? Or maybe we should get the bus to one Villa then the bus to Padua and spend the rest of the day ... more

The Delta tour isn't that the Brenta canal one now with the Palladian Villas ? I have never heard of a dinner cruise to be honest but I could be wrong there was one a few years ago but it diddn't last long. ... more

... morning. Malcontenta first followed by Villa Pisani, quick drive through Padova and on to Vicenza. Drive by Rotonda (closed) and make a quick stop at Villa Malmarana Nani. Then up to Maser (via Asolo)! From there head back to Marco Polo to return car and get shuttle to Airport Hotel ... more

... and a distortion of Palladio. Villa Valmarana ai Nani's interior, particularly in the Foresteria, is wonderful. Palladio reportedly was not thrilled with Paolo Veronese's frescoes at Villa Barbaro/Maser, but they're delightful. If it's a Palladian tour, I'd leave out Villa Pisani and include Villa ... more

... the Veneto and the Palladian Villas. What i have seen for boat tours are the large barchetti which run up and down the Brenta and really look touristy! I have found a few van offerings for 8 people that do various itenararies in the Veneto. Suggestions??? Are there any 'small ... more

... regular Brenta boats go by but I'm not sure they stop at La Malcontenta; they do stop at Villa Pisani, which is a huge, ghastly, non-Palladian pile. This Web site lists Palladian villas by, among other things, geographic location: http://www.cisapalladio.org/veneto/index.php?lingua=e ... more