Villa Nichesola Conforti: Renaissance charm in Valpolicella

The villa was built at the end of the 16th century by Fabio and Cesare Nichesola as a residence-antiquarium, featuring a museum loggia, a botanical-lapidary garden, a grotto-nymphaeum, and rooms frescoed with mythological subjects by the Veronese painter Paolo Farinati.

The architecture recalls ancient Roman villas and is inspired by the work of the greatest Veronese architect of the sixteenth century, Michele Sanmicheli.

Since 2009, continuing the Nichesola family's passion for antiques, the villa has been enriched with a plaster cast gallery and a collection of antique prints.