A document dated 1453 describes this property and traces the original layout of the villa to that time, when the owners, the Sagramoso nobles, had already owned a vast fiefdom in Pacengo for some time.
In 1821 the Balladoro family, who give the villa its name, bought the entire complex. It is a typical Venetian construction with a square plan of the late fifteenth century with renovations probably carried out in the late eighteenth century and towards the end of the nineteenth century. In the system, however, some original pre-existing structures are recognizable, such as the basement floor, the staircase and the entrance on the east side, which certainly influenced the current layout. The building has a mezzanine floor which, according to the canonical scheme of the Venetian villas, has a central hall on the sides of which are the living rooms; the structure is completed by a large attic articulated by an interesting entablature system. The eastern façade is marked by the two ashlar windows of the basement, by a raised ground floor identified by six symmetrical window openings and by a main entrance anticipated by a staircase with a balustrade; finally the salient tympanum which with the rose window and the four lateral eye openings denote the attic. On the same side of the modillions, such as supports of the eaves and corner reinforcements: these are wall reliefs sculpted in such a way as to configure human faces.
The best preserved coats of arms belong to the Balladoro family and are symmetrically placed on both the east and west façades. The other two more ancient and uncertain coats of arms placed on the eastern facade are probably those of the Sagramoso family, which the Balladoro family did not want to remove, despite the substantial work carried out in the building during the period in which the villa was their property and that they have left few traces of the previous structure.
Municipality: Lazise
Hamlet: Pacengo
Period: 1453