History

It was in 1481 that the Avogrado family, of Venetian origin, decided to erect a rural building to support the large farm property acquired in Rezzato, where they settled.

In 1622 began the construction of a part of the noble building by the will of Count Scipione Avogrado. The edifice was known as “Palazzo vecchio” and it was the estate’s core.

In 1735, with the Palladian age, began the construction of the façade and of the east wing. The Avogrado assigned the work to the master builder from Bergamo, Giovanni Battista Marchetti.

However, it will be the abbot Don Antonio Marchetti, son of Giovanni Battista, to give to Villa Fenaroli the splendour that she still has today. With an highly refined setting, a neo-baroque style she is inspired to the Central European and French models, so to be called today “Little Versailles”.

The statues in a grey sandstone, from a neoclassical addition, and the plumes made of Botticino’s stone, expression of a prevailing Romanticism to crown it all and enhance the splendour of the façade.

In addition to all the external sumptuousness, follow the inner rooms of the ground floor and of the first floor where finesse and elegance are chasing between superbly frescoed walls and the ceilings with fine golden stuccos of a nineteenth-century neo-baroque.
After years of abandonment and after months and months of planning of consultation with the municipal administration and the Fine Arts Service of Brescia and the one of the Environmental of Milan, thanks to five years of intensive work, the ambitious project of the present owner Giampietro Ghidini was finally ended in 2006 restoring the Villa her unit of a masterpiece, as a national monument.