VICENZA

World Heritage and splendid city of art, known as "City of Palladio," for the treasures that the famous architect Padua there profuse.
Heart of the city is Piazza dei Signori where you overlook some important monuments including the Palladian Basilica, built to consolidate a Gothic building with the adjoining tower 82 meters high, acquired in 1311 by the City in 1378, which will be the first clock in the city.

La Loggia del Capitanio, Palladio's work remained unfinished and painted by Titian and Paris Bordone, and the Monte di Pietà, built in the second half of'400.
Corso Palladio that follows is a sample of some of centuries of Venetian palaces and churches of great interest. Starting from Piazza Castello, on the one hand that keeps the unfinished Breganze Palace, begun by Scamozzi designed by Palladio, Palazzo Bonin then attributed to Palladio and built by Scamozzi. Opposite is the Palazzo Piovene. Then Palazzo Loschi Zileri created by Otto Calderari in the second half of'700, the church of S. Filippo Blacks rebuilt to 1730, Palazzo Braschi rebuilt on the original forms of'400 after the war, and the Palazzo Trissino Scamozzi, now the town hall. Then Palazzo da Schio, also called the Ca 'd'Oro, a splendid construction of the'400, and the church S. Corona, magnificent Romanesque building, with works by P. G. Veronese and Bellini. Later, the House Palladio, a small building with a beautiful facade.



In Piazza Matteotti faces Chiericati Palace, one of the most prestigious works of Palladio himself, headquarters of the Civic Museum, with collections palaeontology, objects d'art and an art gallery.

Also in the square is the entrance to the complex of buildings that enclose the Teatro Olimpico with semielliptical wooden staircase and the proscenium full of statues. Started in 1580 by Palladio few months before his death was completed in 1584 by his son Silla and the Scamozzi.

The DUOMO, restructured several times over the centuries has a beautiful facade. Inside is a work of Domenico Veneziano and the main altar carved by Giovanni da Pedemuro.





Church of St. Katherine, retains some important paintings by artists such as Celestial, Liberi, carp and the Old. Church of Aracoeli , designed by Guarini, and paintings and statues of Release of Marimali. Church of St. Stefano, where there is a tabernacle painted by Tiepolo and the work of Palma Vecchio.

The happy position of the railway station allows the visitor who arrives in Vicenza to reach in a few moments the old town.