Gradizza - 3 Via Don Giovanni Bigoni

3 Via Don Giovanni Bigoni · Gradizza · Emilia-Romagna

Pub and butcher 200 meters away Cycle path to Villamensa po di Volano In the locality of Sabbioncello San Vittore, on the left bank of the Po di Volano, there is La Mensa, a historic building owned by the Municipality of Copparo and the Province of Ferrara. The villa was enlarged by order of Bartolomeo della Rovere, bishop of Ferrara from 1474 to 1495, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV and brother of his successor, Julius II, Giuliano della Rovere. The building still has many fifteenth-century features despite having been modified in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Mensa has a polygonal plan and a cloister courtyard. The façade, facing west, is extended with two walls (surmounted by battlements) which lead into the service courtyards on the sides of the villa. Villa La Mensa, although it was never a property of the Este family, is connected to the house of Este due to the illustrious people who frequented it and those who used it as a residence, especially the Bishops of the Este dynasty.