Villa Giusti or Villa Giusti del Giardino is a villa in Mandria, outside of

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in northern

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. It is notable for being the site of the signing of the

Armistice of Villa Giusti The Armistice of Villa Giusti or Padua ended warfare between Italy and Austria-Hungary on the Italian Front during World War I. The armistice was signed on 3 November 1918 in the Villa Giusti, outside Padua in the Veneto, Northern Italy, a ...

that ended the

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on the Italian Front. Fully restored in the nineteenth century, the villa was owned at the time of the armistice by the Count Vettor Giusti del Giardino, of a

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noble family. Giusti del Giardino was the mayor of Padua in the 1890s and a senator of the

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from 1915. Before the armistice, the villa was the temporary residence of King

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, who came back from the front and wanted to avoid the aerial bombardment of Padua's city centre. He established his command and stayed there from November 1917 until January 1918. The Armistice of Villa Giusti ended warfare between Italy and

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on the Italian Front during the First World War. The armistice was signed on 3 November 1918 and took effect 24 hours later. In the room where the negotiations were conducted and the armistice was signed, the furniture remains just as it was on that day.History
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