°Vicenza UNESCO world heritage sites
°Vicenza center
°Chiericati Palace
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°Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 37/39
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The harmonious facade is structured on two superimposed orders, with a crowning of statues. The lower floor has a colonnaded portico in Doric order along its entire lenght. The upper floor, in Ionic order, is closed in the central part and has two elegant loggias on the sides.
°Thiene Palace
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°Contra San Gaetano Thiene, 11
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The rich, powerful and sophisticated Thiene brothers belonged to that great Italian nobility which could move with ease among Europe's most important courts: they therefore required a domestic stage adequate for the cosmopolitan expectations of their guests who might visit them.
°Loggia del Capitaniato
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°Piazza dei Signori, 1
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The overall design is extremely sophisticated, as witnessed for example by the portals which open within the niches and follow their curvature.
°Palladian Basilica
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°Piazza Dei Signori
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The most notable feature of the edifice is the loggia, which shows one of the first examples of what have come to be known as the Palladian window, designed by a young Andrea Palladio, whose work in architecture was to have a significant effect on the field during the Renaissance and later periods.
°Cathedral Santa Maria Annunciata
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°Piazzetta Duomo
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It is the seat of the Bishop of Vicenza, and is dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.
°Porto Palace
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°Piazza Castello, 18
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It is one of two palaces in the city designed by Palladio for members of the Porto family (the other being Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello).
°Vicenza surroundings
°Villa Trissino
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°Str. Marosticana 6
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It was mainly built in the 16th century and is associated by tradition with the architect Andrea Palladio.
°Villa Gazzotti Grimani
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°Via San Cristoforo 23, Bertesina
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For the first time Palladio presents the body of the building as a clearly defined cube.
°Villa Almerico Capra "La Rotonda"
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°Via della Rotonda, 45
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This sophisticated building was designed for a site which was, in modern terminology, "suburban". Palladio classed the building as a "palazzo" rather than a villa.
