Villa Giusti

Villa Giusti, also called Villa Giusti del Giardino, is a villa in Mandria, outside Padua in northern Italy. It is best known as the site where the Armistice of Villa Giusti, ending fighting between Italy and Austria-Hungary on the Italian Front in the First World War, was signed on 3 November 1918, taking effect 24 hours later. At the time of the armistice the villa was owned by Count Vettor Giusti del Giardino, a member of a noble Veneto family who served as mayor of Padua in the 1890s and as a senator of the Kingdom of Italy from 1915. Before the armistice the villa served as the temporary residence of King Victor Emmanuel III, who established his command there from November 1917 to January 1918 to avoid the aerial bombardment of central Padua. The room where the armistice negotiations took place still holds the original furniture from that day, and the villa was fully restored in the nineteenth century. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/