Declared World Patrimony by Unesco.

Vicenza and Andrea Palladio, an inseparable combination.

Inspired by the classics, Palladio has upset the current sense of architecture and radically changed the face of Vicenza.

Any traveler who would have crossed the town around 1530, just before the Palladian “revolution”, would have found it still very gothic, painted with colorful plasters and red bricks. The façades would be decorated with balusters and archlets, recalling the Venetian touch.

In just half a century, Palladio would change the face of streets and squares, transforming Vicenza into a city of marble, a hymn to simmetry, a paradise of sober and monumental classicality.

That’s the Vicenza a traveler would find today. In the narrow Vicentinian “contràs”, the most beautiful palaces of nobility carry the signature of Andrea Palladio, they speak about the brilliant carreer of one of the greatest architects of all time.

Information
Tourist Information Office, Piazza Matteotti 12, Phone. 0444/32.08.54

How to reach us
By car: Vicenza, 70 kilometers from Venice and 205 from Milan, can be reached through the A4 Milan-Venice autoroute, exiting either at Vicenza Est or Vicenza Ovest. The centre is about 5 kilometers from the pay toll stations.

By train: the train station is served by the Turin-Milan-Venice-Trieste Eurostars.

By plane: the closest airports are Verona’s Valerio Catullo, 60 kilometers from Vicenza; and Venice’s Marco Polo, 80 kilometers.