Like Palazzo Thiene, the Villa for Marcantonio and Adriano Thiene was also designed by the great Giulio Romano, the family architect who...

Brother of Zuanne, father of Carrier, Daniele and Marco of the Villa di Bagnolo, was Francesco Pisani, another Venetian patrician whom I...

I had my wings unfold to offer the maximum opening, the widest image to the eye, of what was transformed from a house into a palace with...

Giovanni Alvise, the emperor's first reference here in Vicenza, was one of my great supporters, from the very beginning. He, obviously...

Gerolamo Chiericati had been one of my first supporters, together with Giangiorgio Trissino and Giovanni Alvise Valmarana, to obtain the...

I had learned in Rome that there was not always a need for great ornamentation and pomp for an architecture to be harmonious and...

I was 67 when a terrible plague epidemic broke out in the middle of summer, killing one in three Venetians. After a year, the Senate...

If the city palace in Contrà Riale for Ludovico and Francesco Trissino has remained on paper, their villa has been started, one can read...

Poetry. It is poetry created by history, which I could never have come up with on my own. Also because the Porto, or Da Porto, wanted a...

The Barchesse of Villa Badoer in Fratta Polesine have an unusual shape: we could define it as an embrace shape. In fact, they start from...

In Vicenza, which in 49 B.C. it became a Roman municipium, in the corner of the cardo with the current Lampertico contrà was the domus, a...

In Roman times, south of the Via Postumia, there was a pagan necropolis, where even the first Christians buried their dead; here...

Vicenza was much more beautiful in the past years. The railway station was monumental before it was bombed. From the station avenue you...

Piazza delle Erbe in the immediate post-war period was truly and daily the destination of numerous customers, especially from the...

The first certain news of the church comes from a bull that Pope Urban III had sent in Vicenza to Bishop Pastore, in the year 1186. The...

Squeezed between Venice and Verona, Vicenza boasts not only Palladio, the core (nucleus) of its world charm. It contains other treasures...

Ottavio Bertotti was born in Vicenza in 1719, the son of a modest barber of the city and therefore very far from wealth and nobility. But...

In 1404 a delegation of Vicentini, led by Giampiero De Proti, signed in Venice the dedication of our city to the Serenissima. The first...

Quinto Remmio Palemone forgotten character of the Vicenza city. A street in the San Pio X district of Vicenza was dedicated to an unknown...

Filippo Pigafetta and 16th-century Vicenza culture In 2022, the 500th anniversary of Antonio Pigafetta's first trip around the world...