VILLA DEI LEONI
Four years of work, cleaning, restorations for returning to the lions' once present roar. A call which will echo through the Riviera del Brenta, and rally tourist and visitors to cross its gates.
Villa dei Leoni has completed, in the beginning of September, the works that have transformed it in the new cultural center of Mira. Its cost, 4 million and 180 thousand Euros, the works, as explained by the counselor Meggiato 'will generate from this sixteenth century villa a new incentive for our cultural and tourist offer for Mira and the Riviera. This villa, symbol of Mira, completes the cultural and tourist area which from the small square of Mira Porte unwinds toward the Riviera S. Trentin, including the villa and theatre. In this villa a centre of cultural attraction will be developed, which will place at its core events and places connecting, through a single common thread, originating back to the territory.' Connected to the theatre, which celebrates its twentieth year, has already sustained the transformation of its undergrounds to house a cafeteria and a small restaurant, while the upper floors, from the first up to the loft with beams in view, assigned to exhibition spaces and accessory services. A radical transformation for a place built for the residence of the noble Contarini and who housed precious frescoes by Tiepolo done in 1754 as ornaments in the hall on the ground floor and portraying the stop in Mira of Enrico di Valois returning to France from Poland, today admirable in Paris at the Jacquemart-André Museum.
The inauguration held on October 17, was attended, besides by the city' and regional politicians, also by the actor Marco Paolini. Citizen of Mira and lover of the Riviera, he has rewarded the city with a show put together especially to celebrate the new look of Villa dei Leoni and that same theatre where he debuted years ago. 'Schegge degli Album' has touched and entertained all the lucky ones who have had the chance to attend this show staged only in Mira and that Paolini will take in a tour. A gift fit for a king, as kings are also the lions standing guardians over their villa.
