Rocca Pisana is a sixteenth-century villa which was designed by the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi

Vincenzo Scamozzi

thumb|250px|Portrait of Vincenzo Scamozzi by [[Paolo Veronese]]Vincenzo Scamozzi was a Venetian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century...

 for the Pisani family.
In Italy there are several villas called Villa Pisani

Villa Pisani

Villa Pisani is the name shared by a number of villas commissioned by the patrician Pisani family of Venice. However, Villa Pisani usually refers to a large, late baroque villa at Stra on the mainland of the Veneto, northern Italy. It was begun in the early 18th century for Alvise Pisani, the most...

, which take their name from this powerful Venetian family. This villa is also known as La Rocca or La Rocca Pisana. It is situated in the comune of Lonigo

Lonigo

Lonigo is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy, its population counts around 16.000 inhabitants.In its frazione of Bagnolo is the Villa Pisani, a Renaissance patrician villa designed by Andrea Palladio, which is part of a World Heritage Site...

, which is also the home of Palladio's Villa Pisani (Bagnolo)

Villa Pisani (Bagnolo)

thumb|250px|Villa Pisani, the facade facing the river Guà. The towers recall [[Villa Trissino Trettenero]].The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa designed by Andrea Palladio, located in Bagnolo, a hamlet in the comune of Lonigo in the Veneto region of Italy.- History :The Pisani were a rich family...

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Dominating a hill-top site, the exterior of Rocca Pisana shows the influence of Palladio's Villa Rotonda, but has differences, for example, the recessed portico

Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls...

. The internal layout is different from Villa Rotonda.
Rocca Pisana itself has been imitated, eg at Nuthall Temple

Nuthall Temple

Nuthall Temple in Nottinghamshire, one of England's lost houses, was one of five houses built in the United Kingdom generally said to have been inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra in Vicenza....

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See also

• Villa Pisani
  Villa Pisani
  Villa Pisani is the name shared by a number of villas commissioned by the patrician Pisani family of Venice. However, Villa Pisani usually refers to a large, late baroque villa at Stra on the mainland of the Veneto, northern Italy. It was begun in the early 18th century for Alvise Pisani, the most...