Palladio's secret garden
Not everyone knows the Venice of its gardens, that of the 500 private gardens, adorned with every gem of nature, perhaps exotic and very...
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Sep 21, 20232 min read
It's time to wear "Baute e Morette", the ancient game begins... it's Carnival!
It's time to celebrate, because today begins... the Venice Carnival! Those who have been lucky enough to experience it at least once in...
Sep 21, 20231 min read
The Church of S.Pietro in Castello, in Venice
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...
Sep 21, 20231 min read
Villa Valmarana Zen in Lisiera
Listen, as if it were Andrea Palladio telling... Gianfrancesco Valmarana was the brother of Giovanni Alvise, among the first great men...
Sep 21, 20232 min read
Villa Foscari and the "Serenissimo" Prince
Villa Foscari, "La Malcontenta" is certainly one of Palladio's most fascinating works. A majestic house, anciently modern, of an ancient...
Sep 21, 20232 min read
Palazzo Grimani and the dangerous Venetian Renaissance
Yesterday we returned to visit Palazzo Grimani in Venice. A place suspended, enchantingly, between different dimensions of soul and...
Sep 21, 20232 min read
The Palladian Loggia in the Accademia Galleries
The Accademia Galleries have just opened a whole new section, six rooms along the splendid Palladian loggia, an extraordinary...
Sep 21, 20233 min read
From Leonardo to Palladio. Inspiration travels between the two Italians, passing through France
«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...
Sep 19, 20232 min read
Where Leonardo Valmarana hovers
The Valmarana family, that of Giovanni Alvise and his much praised wife, and later widow, Isabella Nogarole. The Valmarana family of...
Sep 19, 20233 min read
Andrea at the Pedemuro workshop
The feeling was that of having something important to say, or rather to do, but not knowing how. The world sparkled around him, but...
Sep 19, 20231 min read
Vicenza, ancient dream
Vicenza is an ancient dream, into which today we can still dive, abandoning ourselves, forgetting for a moment, for a day, for a week,...
Jun 30, 20232 min read
Palazzo Valmarana Braga lives
On Sunday, the 21st, Palazzo Valmarana Braga in Vicenza, our venue, will host the Italian Historic Houses Association's event. It is an...
Jun 30, 20232 min read
Villa Loschi Zileri
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...
Jun 30, 20233 min read
Palladio, Gandhi and Mandela
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...
Apr 15, 20232 min read
Vicenza, its landscapes and the Spirit of Palladio
Let's start from the city of architecture par excellence, to rediscover the horizons that marked the life of Andrea Palladio and where he...
Apr 1, 20232 min read
The breath of Athens and Rome in Venice, 1 day tour with the Palladians
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...
Jan 18, 20231 min read
Barbaran da Porto Palace
The only palace of mine that I was able to see finished was the one for Count Montano Barbarano, an excellent musician, passionate about...
Jan 17, 20231 min read
Saint Francis of the Vineyard Church
The Franciscans had built it three centuries earlier on a vineyard, the great Jacopo Sansovino - proto of Venice before me - had...
Dec 27, 20221 min read
Villa Zeno
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...
Dec 20, 20221 min read
Villa Chiericati
Giovanni Chiericati was the brother of Girolamo, so I was building the palace on the island of Vicenza. The villa was the first occasion...
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