Ca’ Scarpa, the ancient Church of Santa Maria Nova in Treviso, is an exhibition space and vital center of activities that materializes, within the orbit of the Benetton Foundation Studies and Research, due to the proximity of Carlo and Tobia Scarpa. Restored by Tobia Scarpa and inaugurated at the end of 2020, it is the first to have been recovered among the buildings of a complex that for many years belonged to the Finance Intendancy.

The construction we see today takes shape in the second half of the sixteenth century, within a vast area where the oldest Benedictine monastery of Ognissanti and that of Santa Maria Nova, with the homonymous church, merge. All this in the Napoleonic era will follow the fate of the suppression of religious orders, becoming first a military hospital and then barracks. The church undergoes several functional adaptations with the construction of floors and internal partitions, assuming a configuration that remains the same even when, with the Kingdom of Italy, it will be the headquarters of a barracks, and will not be affected by bombs in the First and Second World Wars. From the destructions arises, in the post-war period, the project of adapting the complex to the headquarters of the Finance Intendancy and later, in the eighties, the church will be emptied of the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century superstructures, recovered in its original masonry structure, to host the three-story metal structure of a new printed warehouse, more functional and stable than the previous one. In 2010, following the transfer of the Finance Intendancy offices, the space remained abandoned until it was acquired in 2018 by Edizione Property.

Ca’ Scarpa represents today a new piece of the mosaic of cultural places in the historic center of Treviso desired by Luciano Benetton and is part, together with the Bomben and Caotorta palaces, the church of San Teonisto and the Luisa and Gaetano Cozzi house, of the cultural spaces where the activities of the Benetton Foundation Studies and Research are articulated.