Villa Pojana

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Villa Pojana or Poiana, is a patrician villa in Poiana Maggiore, Veneto (northern Italy). Designed by the Renaissance master architect Andrea Palladio, it is one of the Palladian Villas of the Veneto listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The villa was built in 1546 by Palladio for Bonifacio Pojana, member the ancient noble family of Pojana who held the local fief for the Republic of Venice. A former military, Pojana asked to Palladio a sober edifice whose elegance could evoke the austerity of military life. Palladio in designing the plan inspired to the ancient Roman baths, which he had discovered during his trip to Rome.

The main floor is mainly characterized by a large hall with barrel vault, at the sides of which open the secondary rooms, each with a different type of vault. Decorative elements are almost entirely absent from the exterior: the façade has nor a loggia neither a pronaos like other Palladio's villas, a simple closed architecture being chosen in lieu. The columns have no capitals.

The main feature of the façade is the serliana with five circular holes (oculi), inspired to Roman models. The interior has decorations inspired to war tradition.

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