Italian
Ca’ da Noal, Casa Robegan and Casa Karwath
TREVISO. Walking along via Canova in Treviso, you come across a complex of medieval buildings, which are one of the museum sites of the Civic Museums of Treviso.
These are Ca’ da Noal, Casa Robegan and Casa Karwath, three examples of the economic and cultural wealth for which Treviso was a protagonist in that historical period, now visible in the splendid frescoed walls.
The municipal administration became the owner in 1935. The recovery was carried out “in a Gothic style” thanks to the Melchiori – Botter restoration of 1938 and sought to preserve the original appearance of the palaces as much as possible.
These spaces have therefore become the Museum of the Treviso House, moved here from the spaces of Borgo Cavour, where the curator of the museums at that time, Luigi Coletti, set up the rooms with furniture and furnishings suitable for recreating the setting of a medieval house of the time, using the civic collections of applied arts, recreating the kitchen on the ground floor and living rooms, dining room and music room on the first floor, furnished with furniture, paintings, and various objects.
The bombing on April 7, 1944, damaged the buildings and their setup, which were once again patiently restored by Mario Botter.
In the Seventies, rethought by the architect Carlo Scarpa, these spaces became exhibition venues for twentieth-century art shows, like the one dedicated to Gino Rossi in 1974, continuing in the Nineties with a series of exhibitions on ceramics, ancient fabrics, and other sections of the civic collections.
In 1995, the three buildings underwent further restoration work by the architect Andrea Bellieni, allowing the full recovery of spaces now mainly used for temporary exhibitions.
In the combined inner gardens of the three lots, the small building has been reconstructed inside which, since the Fourteenth century, an inn has been documented.
The two-story house with a porch was originally located at the beginning of Via Canova and was later moved here due to the serious damage suffered during the bombing.
Furthermore, the internal garden, designed as a continuity and extension of the internal spaces, comes alive in the summer with numerous artistic, cultural, and convivial initiatives.
Today, the adjacent portion of Casa Robegan and the interconnected hall on the first floor of Casa Karwath correspond to buildings, also of medieval origin, where one presents an extremely important frescoed Renaissance facade and the other an elegant neoclassical facade.
Therefore, this museum, in addition to performing an important civic function, substantially contributes to the image of Treviso as a treasure trove of historical and artistic beauty.
