Villa Manin in Passariano

Lodovico Manin was the last Doge of the Venetian Republic and his family came from the land of Friuli. In this land the Manin family erected this immense villa facing a large hemicycle-shaped square surrounded by a long colonnade. After the fall of the Venetian Republic, the villa worked as Bonaparte’s headquarters and in this residence the Treaty of Campoformido was prepared to make over the possession of the venetian territories to the Austrian empire.
Today, the villa is employed as a seat of cultural exhibitions, while the boundless park at the back is open to the public.
You can easily reach the villa from Codroipo, thanks to the cycle-track leading to Passariano. The approach from south is nevertheless more spectacular: the villa appears from a distance in the middle of the cornfields, headed by the two towers marking the entrance of the hemicycle square. [More Informations]