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

Piazza delle Erbe in the immediate post-war period was truly and daily the destination of numerous customers, especially from the historic center, who bought various vegetables, fruit, eggs, "osei to peel or xa spelà" and sometimes, on the occasion of feasts, for the richest, hens whose necks were "pulled" on the spot. The street vendors each had their place and the impromptu were placed by lottery, early in the morning, by the Sanitary Brigade. However, no one dared to say s

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 chapel of S. Stefano was one of the seven chapels of the city led by seven chaplains dependent on the chapter of the cathedral. In 1459 the church, appearing now dilapidated, was demolished with the loss of all the works contained; in the same place a new church was built which was soon enriched with side chapels thanks also to bequests from

Squeezed between Venice and Verona, Vicenza boasts not only Palladio, the core (nucleus) of its world charm. It contains other treasures and just to mention a few: the panel of the Baptism of Christ by Giovanni Bellini in San Corona, the large canvas of the supper of San Gregorio Magno by Veronese in Monte Berico; the Gallerie d’Italia initiative born in Vicenza and then followed by Florence, Naples, Milan, Venaria Reale (Turin), at Palazzo Leoni Montanari; the galleries of P

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 as a boy he met the noble Marquis Capra who took a liking to the lively, curious and attentive young boy. He was then helped to study and successfully attended city schools. At the time, there was a testamentary legacy in Vicenza from the great architect Vincenzo Scamozzi who allocated a kind of scholarship to a poor but studious and deserv

In 1404 a delegation of Vicentini, led by Giampiero De Proti, signed in Venice the dedication of our city to the Serenissima. The first Venetian mayor, Michiel, exhibited the symbol of Venice in Vicenza: the bas-relief with the winged lion of St. Mark was placed on the Bissara tower in 1406. A column was then raised in the square with the plan to hoist another lion on top. Clearly visible and majestic. It was placed up there in 1473 and remained there until 1509. In that year

Quinto Remmio Palemone forgotten character of the Vicenza city. A street in the San Pio X district of Vicenza was dedicated to an unknown character from ancient imperial Rome. A slave from an educated family, who lived in Vicenza with a wealthy family, in need of a person who would best educate their offspring. He was born in Vicenza in the year 5 AD, therefore a contemporary of Jesus. "Many stamps of the gens Remmia QUINTUS REMMIO were found on Campus Marzius" wrote Giovanni

Filippo Pigafetta and 16th-century Vicenza culture In 2022, the 500th anniversary of Antonio Pigafetta's first trip around the world occurs; he is commemorated with due honors. It is also an occasion to remember that another member of the family, Filippo, was a leading exponent of the Vicenza culture of that century. He was born in Vicenza in 1533, the year in which historians hypothesize that Antonio died in Greece, fighting against the Turks. Like his ancestor, Philip too

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 by joining the goldsmiths' brotherhood, specializing in the cutting and engraving of gems and rock crystal in Vicenza and Venice. He had important friendships in the Veneto . Palladio frequented his house being a friend of his son Elio, an Olympic physician and academic, and was able to study the rich collection of ancient coins and medals