Villa Filanda Antonini (VFA) is no longer just a place for artistic research
and experimentation. It changes its dress by becoming an eco-tourism
destination. Converging with the guidelines of the local government and
the Veneto Region, VFA is also becoming a promoter of sustainable and
green tourism!
Forget pesticides being sprayed in prosecco fields, forget air pollution
and light pollution. Change is now and it’s green! VFA would like to
thank Asli Hatipoğlu for her ability to lead the Villa to a new horizon,
one that embraces the heritage of the place and its history, and opens up
a new scenario aimed at hospitality!
Asli is the first artist who transform the villa in the “VFA Wellness
Center.”
VFA could not have found a better artist for this project. In fact, coming
from a family that owned a tourism business, Asli had the experience in
designing tour packages with an artistic twist.
Asli conceived and designed for you an immersive package that will
engage mind and body.
Visitors are invited to enjoy food with transparent stories, silk baths for
renewal and kombucha light boxes for relaxation.
Guests are first seated for a Lecture Performance where all the secrets of
the surrounding land are revealed through a multi-course tasting. From
the history of how Radicchio Tardivo di Treviso was created by selective
breeding, to who owns the seeds and the challenges farmers face today.

Guests are also offered two wine tastings of indigenous grape types-
Raboso and Marzemino which are at the verge of disappearance.

Artist/tour-guide/chef Asli not only touches the senses of the audience
by spectacular dishes but also creates a new art market for those hungry

to know more than just what’s tasty. As it is important to bring voices
of those who work the land, the chef collaborates with migrants from
the field to create new dishes for the Italian gastronomy to open up the
Italian tongues for a fusion of taste diversity.

Finally, the artist collaborated with the silk research center CREA-
Agricoltura Ambiente (Silk research center in Padova) to develop a new

market for silk cocoons produced by 200 different breeds of silkworms,

which are no longer utilized by the traditional silk industry. While poly-
hybrid cocoons are repurposed as facial exfoliators, cocoons from older

breeds are used for silk sericin baths, offering an ideal anti-aging therapy.
This initiative serves as a perfect model for eco-tourism, in collaboration
with the CREA, promoting products that are 100% made in Italy, using
exclusively 100% Italian resources and supporting fairly paid workers.
In the sustainable circular economy of the VFA, there is never any waste.
The wine leftovers from the tastings are brewed with yeast and bacteria
collaborators by the artist to make new designs for energy efficient light
boxes while the silk bath waters are put back in the garden for the plants.
Why visit the VFA Wellness Center? This new eco-tourism model is
perfect to engage those who are bored of conventional tourism and want
to try something more artistic.