Description

Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. Venice has been known as "La Dominante", "La Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals". Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their architecture, and artwork. Venice is known for several important artistic movements—especially during the Renaissance period—and has played an important role in the history of instrumental and operatic music, and is the birthplace of Baroque composers Tomaso Albinoni and Antonio Vivaldi.

From 15th to 18th century many Venetian aristocratic families built their villas here (like Villa Pisani, Stra, Villa Ferretti-Angeli in Dolo, Villa Widmann-Foscari in Mira, and Villa Foscari (also known as La Malcontenta) in Malcontenta). They are known as ville venete (Venetian villas).

Artist: Maria Carmela Colaneri

Obverse

Depicts a view of Villa Pisani at Stra, one of the most famous examples of Venetian Villas and an eighteenth-century work by the architects Girolamo Frigimelica-Roberti and Francesco Maria Preti. In the middle, the detail of the fountain; in the upper right, the name of the designer “COLANERI”; below, in two lines, the inscription “VILLA/PISANI”; in exergue, in two lines, the inscription “REPUBBLICA ITALIANA”.

Villa Pisani at Stra refers to the monumental, late-Baroque rural palace located along the Brenta Canal (Riviera del Brenta) at Via Doge Pisani 7 near the town of Stra, on the mainland of the Veneto, northern Italy. This villa is one of the largest examples of Villa Veneta located in the Riviera del Brenta, the canal linking Venice to Padua. The patrician Pisani family of Venice commissioned a number of villas, also known as Villa Pisani across the Venetian mainland. The villa and gardens now operate as a national museum, and the site sponsors art exhibitions.

REPUBBLICA
VILLA PISANI
REPUBBLICA
ITALIANA

Reverse

Depicts the Villa Pisani famous maze, which is made of concentric circles of box hedges and houses, in the middle, a small tower with an external double helical staircase. Above, the value “5 EURO” and the inscription “Italy of Arts”; on the left “R”, identifying the Mint of Rome and the inscription “Venetian villa“; on the right, the year of issue “2018”.

5 EURO
ITALIA DELLE ARTI
R
VILLE VENETE 2018

Edge

5 Euro

KM# 417
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Non-circulating)
Material Silver
Fineness 0.925
Weight 18 g
Diameter 32 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute (IPZS)

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