Mira

The various hamlets of Mira stretch for over three kilometres along the Naviglio di Brenta, a twenty-minute drive from Stra: here you can admire a series of almost uninterrupted villas. The Villa Contarini dei Leoni, built in the mid-16th century by the procurator of Venice Federico Contarini and now at number 5 Riviera Silvio Trentin, is the seat of the Town Hall, open to visits on cultural occasions; opposite are the 16th-century Villa Bon, with neoclassical features, frescoes from the school of Giambattista Tiepolo and the Park, and the Villa Corner, remodelled in the 19th century.

Particularly interesting is the Riscossa locality, where Villa Widmann Rezzonico Foscari is located, surrounded by its garden, one of the sightseeing stops on the Burchiello tour. This is followed on the opposite bank by the eighteenth-century Villa Moscheni and, on the other side of the canal, a long row of seventeenth-century houses where the labourers of the Valmarana estates lived.

It is also part of Mira, also known as Oriago, with a late 16th-century villa of the Gradenigo family and the imposing 18th-century Palazzo Mocenigo, like the Villa Allegri, which is now a bed & breakfast. A brick stone marks the medieval border between the territories of Padua and Venice.