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Villa Settembrini, detail of the facade and the driveway (Marco Trevisan, Venipedia / Bazzmann)

The library is located in the centre of Mestre, in a place convenient to public transport and almost opposite the other library, the Mestre Villa Erizzo civic library.
Owned by the Veneto Region, it specialises in Veneto subjects.

It owes its existence to the Settembrini family who have always loved culture and its diffusion; not surprisingly, Arnoldo Settembrini, already in 1959, established the literary prize "Leonilde and Arnaldo Settembrini". The owner decided to donate, reserving the full usufruct, his residence and other properties to the Veneto Region as long as it undertakes, within five years of his death, to establish the Regional Center of Venetian Culture dedicated to his beloved wife married in seconde wedding - Paola di Rosa Settembrini - and to continue the management of the literature prize according to

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