Stra, altitude 5 m/16 feet above sea level; train station at Padua, 8 km/5 miles to the west.

The villa was built between 1617 and 1635 on behalf of the Venetian noble family Foscarini, based on a design of Vincenzo Scamozzi; it is located in Stra, along the Riviera del Brenta, a few hundred meters away from the more famous Villa Pisani.

Here lived Marco Foscarini, one of the last Doges of the Serenissima Repubblica [the Most Serene Republic − the self applied nickname for Venice. RB] (1762-1763), scholar and author of a history of Venetian literature, as well as a passionate collector of coral.

From the Foscarini family, the villa passed successively to the Negrelli and Rossi families, and is therefore known also as Villa Foscarini-Rossi. It now houses a museum of footwear and is available for weddings and other ceremonies.