Villa Saraceno
I had learned in Rome that there was not always a need for great ornamentation and pomp for an architecture to be harmonious and...
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- Oct 26
- 1 min
Redentore Church
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...
- Oct 26
- 1 min
Villa Trissino in Meledo - Barchesse
If the city palace in Contrà Riale for Ludovico and Francesco Trissino has remained on paper, their villa has been started, one can read...
- Oct 26
- 1 min
Palazzo da Porto Breganze
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...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
Hospitality architecture: Palladio, Bernini or Vanvitelli?
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...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
The old churches of Vicenza: Duomo Cathedral of S. Maria Annunziata.
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...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
The old churches of Vicenza: Basilica dei S.S. Felice and Fortunato
In Roman times, south of the Via Postumia, there was a pagan necropolis, where even the first Christians buried their dead; here...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
It was another world
Vicenza was much more beautiful in the past years. The railway station was monumental before it was bombed. From the station avenue you...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
Maria Pisèta, the "siora" of flowers
Piazza delle Erbe in the immediate post-war period was truly and daily the destination of numerous customers, especially from the...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
The old churches of Vicenza: S. Stefano
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...
- Oct 14
- 1 min
Vicenza attractive
Squeezed between Venice and Verona, Vicenza boasts not only Palladio, the core (nucleus) of its world charm. It contains other treasures...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
The 18th century Vicenza culture: Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi
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...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
The Lion of San Marco in Vicenza
In 1404 a delegation of Vicentini, led by Giampiero De Proti, signed in Venice the dedication of our city to the Serenissima. The first...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
Quinto Remmio Palemone
Quinto Remmio Palemone forgotten character of the Vicenza city. A street in the San Pio X district of Vicenza was dedicated to an unknown...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
Filippo Pigafetta
Filippo Pigafetta and 16th-century Vicenza culture In 2022, the 500th anniversary of Antonio Pigafetta's first trip around the world...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
Valerio Belli
Valerio Belli in the Vicenza culture of the 1500s Valerio Belli was born in Vicenza in 1468 to a rich Milanese family; he learned the art...
- Oct 14
- 1 min
Palladium che pis
The Manneken-Pis is a bronze statue of a puer minges, about fifty centimeters high, located in the historic center of Brussels. This...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
Corte dei Roda Contrà S. Andrea
Corte dei Roda Contrà S. Andrea, so called due to the existence in medieval times of a small church dedicated to the saint. Someone...
- Oct 14
- 2 min
Egidio Di Velo
Egidio Di Velo in the Vicenza culture of the nineteenth century Count Girolamo Egidio di Velo was born in Vicenza in 1792 from a noble...
- Oct 13
- 1 min
Vicenza in the Center
VICENZA IN THE CENTER VICENZA IN THE CENTER IN THE CENTER In its tenth year of life it wants to be a community more than ever. Every day...