Costozza, an ancient agricultural village in the municipality of Longare, located not far from the wonderful historic center of Vicenza. It is surrounded by green hills characterized by a series of caves, natural and otherwise, which over the centuries were used both as quarries, but also as cellars and deposits.

Known as the Costozza Covoli, these cavities were connected with conduits to the noble villas, built in the town during the 17th century, to refresh the rooms in summer and cool them in winter. These caves are an extraordinary engineering work, made from the limestone of the Berici Hills, and used for a very long time especially for the conservation of wine and food.

Not to be missed in the inhabited center is the Villa da Schio, an elegant structure built on the initiative of the Counts Trento in 1700, consists of three buildings, connected by a large and scenic park, formed by large terraces connected to each other by particular steps decorated with statues of Horace marinali.

This extraordinary Venetian villa is famous for its historic caves, or covoli, which have always been used as a cellar. Further on we can admire Villa Trento Carli, a residence built in 1645 by Count Alessandro Morlini Trento, at the foot of the hill and preceded by a large English garden.

The building was built on a pre-existing fifteenth-century structure, of which we can still admire a room with a cross-vaulted ceiling and a large fifteenth-century coat of arms of the Trento counts. To stand out inside is the large upper room, built with considerable proportions and with a white and red terracotta floor.