Tempio Canoviano site features

The Parthenon portico

Eight Doric columns, close-copied rather than adapted. Stand under it and look back down the approach before going in.

The domed rotunda

Pantheon-derived, top-lit, and the reason the interior is worth more than a glance. The light changes completely with the weather.

Canova's tomb

The sculptor is buried in the building he designed, which is a rarer thing than it sounds.

The altarpiece

A Deposition painted by Canova himself — he painted throughout his life, though almost nobody knows it, and this is the most visible example.

The view from the terrace

South over the village and across the Asolo hills to the Veneto plain, with Monte Grappa directly behind you.