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Villa Foscari

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Villa Foscari is a patrician villa in Mira, near Venice, northern Italy, designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. It is also known as La Malcontenta ("The Discontented"), a nickname which—according to a legend—it received when the spouse of one of the Foscaris was locked up in the house because she allegedly did not live up to her conjugal duty.

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Villa Foscari
Via Malcanton, Mira

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Via Malcanton 21
30034 Mira
Veneto, Italy
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Operation Bowler
Operation Bowler

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