That's right, Veneto boasts the first woman graduate in the world, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia: it is precisely in Padua that Elena...

Not everyone knows the Venice of its gardens, that of the 500 private gardens, adorned with every gem of nature, perhaps exotic and very...

It's time to celebrate, because today begins... the Venice Carnival! Those who have been lucky enough to experience it at least once in...

My first project in Venice, and at the time my first church facade. It wasn't a coincidence. In the Christian circles of Vicenza everyone...

Listen, as if it were Andrea Palladio telling... Gianfrancesco Valmarana was the brother of Giovanni Alvise, among the first great men...

Villa Foscari, "La Malcontenta" is certainly one of Palladio's most fascinating works. A majestic house, anciently modern, of an ancient...

Yesterday we returned to visit Palazzo Grimani in Venice. A place suspended, enchantingly, between different dimensions of soul and...

The Accademia Galleries have just opened a whole new section, six rooms along the splendid Palladian loggia, an extraordinary...

«It is nothing more than a spiral staircase, but you never get tired of going up and down», wrote Goethe in his Journey to Italy. There...

The Valmarana family, that of Giovanni Alvise and his much praised wife, and later widow, Isabella Nogarole. The Valmarana family of...

The feeling was that of having something important to say, or rather to do, but not knowing how. The world sparkled around him, but...

Vicenza is an ancient dream, into which today we can still dive, abandoning ourselves, forgetting for a moment, for a day, for a week,...

On Sunday, the 21st, Palazzo Valmarana Braga in Vicenza, our venue, will host the Italian Historic Houses Association's event. It is an...

Vicenza is Palladio for everyone, and we couldn't agree more. But Palladio is also a beginning of something that goes on, here in our...

It was an era of profound transformations and great hopes in the heart of South Africa, in those years that were shaping the future of...

Let's start from the city of architecture par excellence, to rediscover the horizons that marked the life of Andrea Palladio and where he...

Among the different faces of Venice, there is a half-hidden one, present but not dominant, and it is the face of a mask that whispers an...

The only palace of mine that I was able to see finished was the one for Count Montano Barbarano, an excellent musician, passionate about...

The Franciscans had built it three centuries earlier on a vineyard, the great Jacopo Sansovino - proto of Venice before me - had...

With each passing year I took a step deeper into the heart of Venice. The Zeno, or Zen, one of the twelve ancient houses in Venice, in...