A truly important legacy that of Andrea Palladio.
We are not talking about his treatise The Four Books of Architecture, nor about the countless architectural wonders he designed during his career.
We are talking about a particular building, a place of art and culture, a cradle of dreams and imagination: the Olympic Theater.
A high-sounding name in which the architect poured all his love for the classic lines and the dogmas of ancient Rome, a symbol of harmony and geometric functional perfection.
The oldest covered theater in the world, reproduces the illusion of a classical open-air theater thanks to a sky depicted on the ceiling observed closely by the statues depicting the patrons, the members of the Olympic Academy, a culture conservation circle of which numerous exponents they were part of the Vicenza nobility.
But what is most striking about the theater is its set design, fixed and never replaced by its inauguration. The Theban trades unfold in front of us in a fascinating perspective game that gives depth and realism, giving us the feeling of being inside the story. The work is Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrant, a tribute to the function of classical theater that was intended to be donated to the Olimpico.
Even today, the Vicenza classical theater season takes place in those streets, as well as interesting and particular concerts of ancient and distant instruments, to the delight of admirers.