Corte dei Roda Contrà S. Andrea, so called due to the existence in medieval times of a small church dedicated to the saint. Someone wrote that above a garage in the street there remains, as evidence of the church, the carved bezel that overlooked the entrance door. I have searched a lot, but I have not had the luck of seeing it. Unless the unknown informant was referring to a square image with a man's head that appears on the wall of a house at the end of the straight part o

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 family with vast possessions; he had in the city the Di Velo palace in Carpagnon, so comfortable that it could house the King of Denmark in 1709; in 1808 he also inherited the Montanari palace. After his studies, from 1812 he went on an educational tour in Europe: Paris, Holland, Denmark. He returned to Italy and in 1816 he was in Rome, Nap

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 with the industrious aperitifs at the well-known meeting places in the historic center, it gathers everyone, with particular regard for lonely people, to exchange opinions, information, even material help and a lot of friendship . To be a cultural association , it organizes study meetings and visits to places of interest, even less known bu

A square, a city ... beautiful A square, a city ... beautiful between beautiful and beautiful there is a difference. I am referring to the name that Vicenza carries with it from the past. But today? UNESCO city. True. But certainly not beautiful, if we look a bit around beyond the "usual" historical living room. But the city is not all there. I pause on Piazza S. Lorenzo . A scenographic, rich square: A cleaned monument dedicated to Giacomo Zanella, the Temple of San Lorenz

In the Olympic Theatre , every sound seems to carry the memory of an origin. The air moving through the cavea, the light resting on the painted columns, the streets of Thebes suspended in their perpetual illusion: everything invites you to listen. Architecture speaks before the music even begins. In this theatre conceived by Andrea Palladio  and illuminated by the imagination of Vincenzo Scamozzi, the stage extends toward an impossible horizon. Forced perspectives descend lik

He was born in Vicenza in 1842. In his youth he lived first in Turin , where he graduated in law, then in Milan, where he came into contact with the exponents of the scapigliatura, but already in 1869 he returned to Vicenza, where, abandoned the profession of lawyer, he devoted himself exclusively to literature until his death in 1911. Fogazzaro was a restless soul, eager to free himself from the fetters of an oppressive bourgeois conformism, but also unable to formulate in c

Borgo Berga and the Palladian Arco delle Scalette of Monte Berico . Borgo Berga is an area located in the historical center of Vicenza that has undergone many changes. The district was formed in the area between the city walls in the early medieval and Venetian period and has developed in recent centuries along the first stretch of the Riviera Berica and on the adjacent slopes of Monte Berico . A few meters from this area you can admire the Renaissance masterpieces of

In the heart of Vicenza , inside the ancient prisons, the Olympic Theatre is an unmissable visit for any traveller visiting the city of Palladio and on vacation in Veneto. The history of the Vicenza Olympic Theatre The Olympic Theatre is one of the architectural masterpieces that Palladio left to the city of Vicenza and to the entire world and is also his spiritual testament, his final project before his death and was completed only after by his pupil Vincenzo Scamozzi .