Mini 50th wedding anniversary for the cheerful group accompanying the newlyweds. Between friends, medical colleagues and a slew of grandchildren of all ages, visitors populated interiors and the park in the still warm sun of a mild October.

Welcome with an aperitif under the porch mirroring yourself in the pond and then setting up indoors. The bravest and the green thumbs took advantage of it for a wide ride before lunch served in the lounge.

E’ only one of the various events that the villa can accommodate, and it is a good example of an 'easy opportunity’ for which it was designed. Dry and not sumptuous, bizarre and not swampy, natural, surrounded by greenery, cultured but not too much. Not aseptic, rather flirtatious. “It makes a lot of home”, as someone said.

They couldn't give us a better compliment.

I Nurseries Priola Treviso are now known nationwide. Small but specialized. Over forty years ago they were born recently and it was they who planted villa those tall trees now almost thirty meters.

From the classic trunk in the basement they came out quotes and original documents. Not far away a roll-feed tube kept the original project Park Villa Bornello, the order in the list of the more than 2000 plants planned, the architect's bills French Bogaert.

Open a treasure chest for a carbon copy of tissue in the letterhead, invoices beaten black ribbon or red as they used to at the time, the punch variations in pencil on the project, the Latin names of plants, moving total of pound. Especially the possibility, like new explorers,  to go around the park, drawing the hand, and figure out what has changed and what is not. Compare ” the then ” e ” now the ” a living organism like a garden.

Tranquilli, it's all fairly faithful. Although the project from those 2000 plants immediately went down to a little more than three hundred, many of which come down to us. The park It rises gradually from the city walls and is one of the rare examples of large residential park in the municipal urban belt. The house there is literally immersed so that the connecting link between the two worlds is constituted by the particular pond. Place of business meetings and events ceremonies generally, The villa is one of the few cases in the area, perhaps the only, of rental’modern architecture event. And not just for 😉 events