La Rotonda

At the bend in the Portici a road runs east, and 2 minutes along this a footpath goes off on the right and leads past the Villa Valmarana (with mythological frescoes by Giovanni Battista, 1757) to reach in 10 minutes the famous Rotonda, a square structure crowned by a dome which was begun by Palladio about 1550 and completed by Scamozzi in 1606. (The Villa Valmarana and the Rotonda can also be reached by road from the Strada della Riviera Berica, which skirts the east side of Monte Berico.)