Villa Almerico Capra (La Rotonda) ★
Calling it the Rotonda is inexact, and Palladio listed it among palaces, not villas.
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Museums Teatro Olimpico Palladio's final masterpiece is the oldest modern indoor theatre, retaining its original perspective sets from 1585. -
Castles Villa Almerico Capra (La Rotonda) Calling it the Rotonda is inexact, and Palladio listed it among palaces, not villas. -
Castles Basilica Palladiana Palladio's loggias around Vicenza's Gothic town hall: the serliana, the keel-roofed hall and the terrace. -
Castles Palazzo Chiericati Palladio's palace-villa on the piazza dell'Isola, now the civic museum: the stacked loggias and Van Dyck. -
Churches Santuario della Madonna di Monte Berico The sanctuary above Vicenza, with its portico of a hundred and fifty arches and a slashed Veronese.
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Castles, palaces and villas
14Basilica Palladiana ★
Palladio's loggias around Vicenza's Gothic town hall: the serliana, the keel-roofed hall and the terrace.
Palazzo Chiericati ★
Palladio's palace-villa on the piazza dell'Isola, now the civic museum: the stacked loggias and Van Dyck.
Villa Gazzotti
One of Palladio's earliest villas, shut and peeling behind the church of Bertesina.
Palazzo Barbaran da Porto
The only large palace Palladio managed to finish, now the museum devoted to Palladio.
Villa Trissino
The villa where a stonecutter met a humanist and came out with the name Palladio.
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Palazzo Valmarana
The Palladian palace willed by Isabella Valmarana, with its giant order.
Palazzo Porto in piazza Castello
The fragment of a Palladian palace left unfinished on piazza Castello.
Palazzo Schio
Palladian façade with three arches and four Corinthian half-columns, designed in the 1560s.
Palazzo Civena
Palladio's first town palace (1540-1542), enlarged in 1750 and rebuilt after the bombing of 1944.
Villa Valmarana "Ai Nani"
Villa with frescoes by Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo (1757) and stone dwarfs along the boundary wall.
Palazzo Garzadori
Gothic palace in contrà Piancoli (about 1460), where an intervention by Palladio has been suggested.
Mura scaligere
Scaliger 14th-century walls of Vicenza: the Rocchetta, Porta Santa Croce and pentagonal towers along viale Mazzini.
Porta Santa Lucia
Scaliger gate of 1370, one of the three surviving medieval ones, with the lion of Saint Mark partly chiselled away.
Churches and places of worship
12Santuario della Madonna di Monte Berico ★
The sanctuary above Vicenza, with its portico of a hundred and fifty arches and a slashed Veronese.
Chiesa di Santa Corona
Bellini's Baptism, a Veronese, and Palladio's crypt, where Palladio himself was buried.
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Annunciata
The Gothic cathedral with Palladio's dome, rebuilt after the bombs of 1945.
Chiesa di San Lorenzo
Gothic Franciscan church of the late 1200s, with a 14th-century portal funded by the bequest of a moneylender.
Chiesa di Santa Maria Nova
Church attributed to Palladio (1578), single hall with Corinthian half-columns; reopened to the public in 2024.
Oratorio di San Nicola da Tolentino
Oratory begun in 1505 with a 17th-century façade and a cycle of canvases by Maffei and Carpioni on Saint Nicholas.
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Basilica dei Santi Felice e Fortunato
Early Christian basilica (4th-5th century) with a sacellum, ancient mosaics and a Benedictine abbey.
Chiesa di San Marco in San Girolamo
Baroque church of the Discalced Carmelites (1720-1727), with eleven façade statues and Ricci's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.
Chiesa di Santa Maria in Araceli
Baroque church attributed to Guarino Guarini (1675-1680), with an elliptical plan and a theatrical façade.
Chiesa di Santa Maria Etiopissa
Early medieval church at Polegge with 15th-century frescoes, the peacock pluteus and a name still debated.
Chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo
Church of the borgo of San Pietro, once centre of the most powerful Benedictine nunnery in the Vicenza area.
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi
15th-century church in piazza Biade with a portal of 1531 that may be one of Palladio's first works.
Museums, theatres and collections
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Teatro Olimpico ★
Palladio's final masterpiece is the oldest modern indoor theatre, retaining its original perspective sets from 1585.
Gallerie di palazzo Leoni Montanari
The wool merchants' baroque, with Russian icons and Pietro Longhi's scenes.
Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza
In the villa on the Monte Berico hill, the papers of Vicenza's wars.
Teatro comunale Città di Vicenza
Gino Valle's theatre opened in 2007 on viale Mazzini: a 910-seat hall, a 380-seat ridotto, suspended acoustic panels.
Teatro Berga
Roman theatre of Vicetia (late 1st century BC): its shape survives in the streets and in the walls of houses.
Parks and gardens
3Campo Marzo
Large park of Vicenza at the foot of Monte Berico, municipal for centuries, its name still disputed: Marzo or Marzio.
Giardini Salvi
Historic garden of 1592 with the Palladio-inspired Valmarana loggia, open to the public since 1909.
Parco Querini
Twelve-hectare park between the Bacchiglione and Astichello, with an Ionic temple of 1820 and a pond.
Squares, fountains and monuments
2Piazza dei Signori
Old forum and heart of Vicenza: Basilica Palladiana, Bissara tower, Loggia del Capitaniato and the two columns.
Ponte degli Angeli
Bridge of Roman origin on the Bacchiglione (1st-2nd century AD), rebuilt several times; the present one is of 1950.
Archaeology
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Criptoportico romano
The underground corridor of a Roman house beneath Vicenza's cathedral square.
Tours, tickets and experiences
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