The imposing Villa Contarini, gives, on its southern side, onto the evocative semicircular square, which is at the core of the life in the municipality of Piazzola sul Brenta. The most important part of the building is the fourteenth century castle belonged to the Carraresi family, which in the sixteenth century was then sold to the Contarini family of Venice, who decided to renovate and enlarge it. In one of its lateral wings, namely the eastern one, it is possible to see interesting Greek and Latin epigraphic material, which was collected over the years by the noble Venetian and Paduan families.