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The
History
From before 1100 AD until the end of 1700 AD
it has in fact been first a church, and then a monastery of the holy
order of Saint Biagio and Cataldo from Venice, founded by the first
abbess: the blessed Giuliana from Collalto, who repaired it at the
middle of the 1200s. Albarea monastery was the inland headquarter
of the Monastery of Venice that was built on the water, on the island
of Giudecca. After the closing of the convents because of a law of
Napoleon, on the foundations of the Giudecca convent of Venice the
well known "Molino Stucky" was built; instead the Albarea
Convent, nevertheless conserving its original structure, has become
a private Villa and then the summer residence of the Rizzi family:
generation of business men, engineers and doctors, up to the present
owner, the physician Pierluigi Rizzi, who has been living here since
the late sixties and has gone on restoring it in accordance with the
"Sovraintendenza alle Belle Arti of Venice" and the "Ville
Venete Institute". He is helped by his aristocratic wife, Aida,
psychologist and musician, that in these years has looked after the
works and restores, that organizes cultural events and that together
with her husband personally welcomes the guests.
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