Villa Liruti

The villa is located inside the medieval village, in a vast park; it is connected to the pre-existing main buildings and delimits a courtyard which ends to the north and west by other rural buildings. Acquired by the Serenissima Republic in 1647, the Liruti family built their residence there while maintaining the original surrounding walls with turrets and constructing the central quadrangular tower, later transformed into a bell tower. The Friulian linguist Gian Giuseppe Liruti (1689-1780), Innocenzo, Bishop of Verona (1741-1828), and the lawyer-poet Antonio Liruti (1773-1818) were born and raised here.
The tripartite layout features a central passage hall. At the rear, the construction connects to the older main body, with an elongated and shallow plan, typical of Friulian manor houses. The main façade has an entrance with stone panels and a mask on the architrave, surmounted by a balcony with a wrought-iron balustrade and a tympanum with the family coat of arms. On the west side of the area is the small Villa Puicher, built in the second half of the 19th century on pre-existing buildings.