In the preservation of the historical gardens architectonic elements, issues related to these objects building characteristics are tackled: their nature, often intrinsically “ephemera”, that doesn’t expect the complete protection from environmental factors and the related deterioration, and their constant exposition to the atmospheric agents, that aggravate exponentially the conditions and finally, in case of the nymphaeums, the contemporaneous presence of very elaborate decorations and installations and “play of water” that maintain them in constant contact with very high humidity percentage, make extremely complex the operations turned to the conservation and strengthening of these astonishing manufactures.
In the case of Villa del Bene – Scopoli nymphaeum in Avesa – realized during the early decades of the XVII century – the intervention highlighted a decorative method into the main so far unknown, concealed by a recent plaster; it is an extraordinary decoration in polychrome gravel totally uncommon in the Veneto area. The clearing operations from the coating and the following strengthening and preservation phases implied a series of problems which needed difficult solutions.
