The history

A Villa, a Family

Villa Pomai Muneratti, owned since the mid-16th century by the Contarini family of the Santa Sofia branch, stands, as evidenced by the Benedictine arches on the façade, on what was an ancient settlement of the Order in the small Mirano fraction.

In 1736 the property came to Lucrezia Contarini of the Madonna dell’Orto branch, wife of Zorzi Contarini Zaffo descendant of the rich Zaffo family, owners of important residences in Venice.

In 1789 the villa became the residence of the Brescian Pomai family, who left their houses in Venice at San Marcuola to settle permanently in Campocroce. The family was composed of Francesco, honorary member of the Georgic Academy of Padua and president of the Agriculture Committee of the Municipality of Mirano, his wife, their children, cousin Abbot Giovambattista, first secretary of Venice, then corresponding member from Mirano of the prestigious Accademia dei Filareti, and from 1805 by Francesco Muneratti, son of the eldest daughter Lucia Pomai.

From the descendants of Francesco Pomai, brothers Francesco and Alessandro, the latter married to Venetian patrician Caterina Minio, the purchase of the entire complex was perfected in 1845 and left as inheritance to cousin Alberto Muneratti, Sergeant of the Tuscan Grenadiers, who will settle there very young.

Thanks to the Pomai-Muneratti family, cultivation of rice, flax, and hemp began in the owned lands, and in the garden of the villa, in special greenhouses, the "pepeniere", the sowing of white pepper.

Even today, the villa remains, from the times of Francesco Pomai and his nephew Francesco Muneratti, after more than two centuries, within the same family.