Villa Pace is located in the small rural village of Tapogliano, a few kilometers from Aquileia, a historic Roman city, from Palmanova, a star-shaped Venetian fortress city, and from Cividale, the medieval capital of Friuli, all three UNESCO sites.
Tapogliano is also a few kilometers from Grado, a historic beach of the Habsburg Empire.
The residence is located in the center of a large park, closed to the east and west by two barchesse used, one as a champagne barn for the Perusini winery and the other for hospitality with apartments for holiday homes.
Villa Pace is registered with Dimore Storiche Italiane and is one of the thousands of private residences in Italy that attract a number of visitors every year almost comparable to that of public museums and that together with them make our country precious and unique.
Cubic in shape, closed on the sides by corner towers that characterize many noble villas on the eastern border, it was built in the mid-seventeenth century by order of Carlo Maria Pace v. Friedensberg, Field Marshal of Emperor Leopold I and restored in the mid-eighteenth century by another Carlo Maria Pace. Villa Pace has always remained the property of the family that built it and retains much of the original furnishings, even though it was partially looted when the front passed during the First and Second World Wars. The restoration, to which the villa has been subjected over the last ten years, has allowed the recovery of the original spaces and extraordinary eighteenth-century mural paintings, which are the oldest known depictions in Italy of Captain James Cook’s voyages.