Of the villa, originally belonging to the Colonnese's family, remained only the front facing east. The buildings,   leaning on the North and South sides of the villa, did not allow to understand which was the distribution of the opening of the three floors. The large and radical changes made to the West side were so major to prevent the possibility to read the original architectonic composition.

Once freed the Villa by the side buildings, the following steps, with the help of the historic Renato Cevese, were to recreate the general flow. Sure historical news confirm that in the front side of the Villa was possible to read two inscription: "FRANCISCUS COLONNENSIS I.U.D.ANNO DOMINI MDCLXXXI", "FRANCISCUS COLONNENSIS I.U.D. A FONDAMENTIS MDCLXXXI FRANCISCUS NEPOS PERFECIT ANNO MDCCCIII". The two dates   - 1681 and 1803 - indicate the conclusion of the building, started only few years earlier. However, the following floors were done   122 later. During this period the culture tied to the evolution of architectonic shapes, caused also a change in the taste and sensibility of the customers and artists. Let's examine the present front side of the Villa, that allows some considerations of major interest.   The main section is marked, on the ground floor, by four rusticated ashlar pilaster strip, and on the two higher floors by the same number of pilaster strip - with a Tuscan-Doric style. These sustain a triangular gable, decorated by small acroter vases: three at the vertex of the triangle, and two at the extremities. Walls are symmetric, and two windows are placed in each floor. These create the conjunction of the central side. At the end of 17 th century

Access road to the Oratorio

without doubt the date of 1681 - can be placed the four   ashlar pilaster strip, like the three door-windows in the first floor. The same for the baluster in the middle of the ground floor. Four are created by small columns, that   because of the movement, reflect the taste of 17th century. The only side decoration is represented by some small panels. The rectangular frames of the ground and first floor are representation of the 16th century. These are easily found in work of the following century not only in Vicenza but also in its surrounding areas.   Shapes tied to that architectural style mark the Vicenza of 17th century, before the strong and innovative activity of Francesco Muttoni.

	Contradictory to what is tied to the 1681, in the second floor contradict the four giant pilaster strip of neoclassic style, the windows opening of smaller dimensions with respect to the lower ones, in the two sides, without the frame; it is, at the end, that a triangular gable that appears as a sure present, for its dimension and for the style of the frame, to the neoclassic style.
Villa Colonnese's front side

It is not contradictory the hypothesis of the neoclassic elevation: three windows in the center of the second floor: smooth is their frames, smooth is their key, in the center of the arc; included in the projection, the top frame, because non rich of moldings » It is therefore fair to consider the second floor as an added part of 1803, made by Francesco, nephew of that Francesco Colonnese in charge of the first home, that choose the highest point of the West slope, where the eye could look until the Lessini hills between Verona, Vicenza and the Pre Alps; hugging the large prealpine arc from the Dolomiti mountains of Carega and Pasubio, from Novegno to Priaforà and Summano; from the Altopiano dei Sette Comuni to the Grappa Mountain; and on the other side, the long outlines of Berici mountain, where valleys enter into the huge plain that reaches the Adriatic sea.

The inside of the villa, it is mainly the dimension of the interior - both on the ground floor and on the first floor - to give the certainty that the perimeter walls , or at least a part of these, were used and location of the walls similar to those of a smaller house, may a simple indicate a country house. The reduced high of the floors is a sure proof that the preexisting building did not have a high elevation, because it was made of only two floors .

Taken into consideration the extraordinary beauty of the location, ideal for a stay during the long months of the good seasons, it was logic for the owners to desire to transform the "poor" country house into a principal house even though the small dimensions. It would had the front enriched by the style of the baroque and classic architecture, the 17th century frames of the three shaped opening in the middle of the first floor, plus their balusters; the very high echinus four tuscan-dorics pilaster strips, the triangle gable. Home, as it has been said, for the summer: for this reason it does not exist the chimney that corresponds to the front side, impossible to made in the small space between the windows of the lateral sides; unless the decision to made them from the perimeter of the sides. It was possible after a careful exam of the existing structures.

The "repairs" and the substitutions are not minor: they brought the reorganization of the distributive opening on the lateral sides and on the back side. Therefore, the closing or the reorganization of the opening made in the years following the Second World War, in the same ways the areas at the second floor in the intercolumniation in the ground floor on the side of the original door.

Who could be the designer of the present building?

It is possible to think to an educated   person, to a trainee in the architecture; to a trainee inthe design of the ground and first floor; to a   trainee for the elevated floor and for the finishing: Francesco Colonnese, senior and Francesco Colonnese, junior. The elevated floors and for the gigantic order of the front, are missing some strength. For this reason we will not be able to call it a work of the Olympic Architecture of Vicenza of the neoclassic age. Because of these reasons it is possible to believe that Francesco "the young", if documents existed and were available - proved, it could   be placed in the shade of the Neoclassic time of Vicenza.