 While some documents claim the original design was by Andrea Palladio, this attribution is controversial.This core of the villa has a facade, oddly out of place in this open space, resembling a Gothic canal facade in Venice.The more elaborate flanking wings were commissioned by Marco Contarini between 1671 and 1676 extended the 16th century layout, building two large loggia wings at the sides of the previous main building, which are decorated with numerous telamon sculptures, extruding from the second story pilasters.