The day was falling when I stopped under the incomplete porticoes of my Basilica. The wooden scaffolding, pitch-black and gnarled , climbed like skeletons along the façade, enveloping the building in a lattice that seemed suspended in time. The resinous smell of damp wood mingled with the acrid scent of red-hot metals, carried by the wind from the goldsmiths' workshops nearby. I was not alone. The shadows lengthened around the workers who, on the scaffolding, were shaping the

Vicenza has always been considered the Italian city of gold, able to boast for centuries the production of about a third of all the goldsmith work of the beautiful country. Ok, Arezzo friends, we know... Do we want to say that Vicenza is itself a jewel? What do you say? But certainly, without a doubt Arezzo in turn! Let's get to us: the first document that attests to our ancient tradition dates back to 1399, when the "Constitution of the Guild of Goldsmiths of Vicenza" was i

In Vicenza, tourism was born centuries ago thanks to some important visitors who were passionate and curious about Palladio's works, just a few years after his death. We choose just a few here, jumping from one century to the next and remaining in the proximity of what today is by far the most visited attraction. The first official tourists that history remembers were the very young representatives of the Tenshō Embassy , ​​traveling from Japan to Europe between 1582 and 1590

Everyone is ready, "dressed to the nines", here in Vicenza , in this week of April! Not only for the arrival of spring, which colors it with the purple of the wisteria and gives it shades of new light, but also for a very significant occasion, which celebrates its value and beauty on a national and international level. In fact, our city is preparing to celebrate 30 years of its inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage list. The first appearance of the site "City of Vicenza and

Vicenza is an ancient dream , into which today we can still dive, abandoning ourselves, forgetting for a moment, for a day, for a week, that everything must be done for something, that there must be a small, daily, concrete purpose. Forgetting a life of survival and savoring, inhaling, aspiring to something great, magnificent, ideal. Vicenza is real, but there is also a Vicenza that exists "beyond" . Which exists in the wings of the Teatro Olimpico, in the minds of Giangio

On Sunday, the 21st, Palazzo Valmarana Braga in Vicenza, our venue, will host the Italian Historic Houses Association's event. It is an opportunity to evoke a glorious moment of one of the most beautiful palaces in the UNESCO-listed Palladian heritage. As often happens, it arises from a tragic event, namely the bombing of the palace during World War II, on that 18th of March when it was partially destroyed, reduced to an apparently irrecoverable ruin , except for the extraord

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 residential area for the wealthy people of Vicenza. In the 2nd century AD. one of these houses was enlarged with an apsidal hall called domus ecclesiae and became a meeting place for the first Christians. At the end of the 14th century in that place, the Cathedral was built with a semicircular apse and three naves. In 425, while Marcello of

In Roman times, south of the Via Postumia, there was a pagan necropolis, where even the first Christians buried their dead; here developed the cult of the brothers Felice and Fortunato de Rainoni, martyred in Aquileia in the Domitian period. Towards the end of the 4th century a simple ecclesiae hall of about 10X16 meters was erected; simple in structure but with a rich musile floor, still visible inside the basilica. In 452 the hordes of Attila attacked and devastated the

Vicenza was much more beautiful in the past years. The railway station was monumental before it was bombed. From the station avenue you went towards the city center admiring the "O" and the Campo Marzio enriched by the Verdi Theater and the Moresco bar. What could Vicenza present itself today with its theater rebuilt as it is, with a bar and restaurant along the avenue of the station. The SALVI garden was enhanced in September by the GOLDSMITH FAIR and therefore was frequente