Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Vicenza, Italy
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5.4 km
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Experience Vicenza in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in VicenzaIndividual Sights in VicenzaSight 1: Chiesa di San Pietro
The church and monastery of San Pietro, which gave its name to the village of the same name in the city of Vicenza, until 1810 were the main and managerial headquarters of the abbey of San Pietro, the oldest and most powerful Benedictine female settlement in the Vicenza area. The church has become the parish church, while the former monastery is used as a care institution for the elderly.
Sight 2: Palazzo Chiericati
The Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio.
Sight 3: Astra
The Astra Theatre is a theatre in Vicenza built between 1934 and 1936 and owned by the municipality.
Sight 4: Oratorio di San Nicola
The Oratory of San Nicola da Tolentino is a small chapel-like structure located in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is renowned for its superb collection of 16th and 17th-century paintings.
Sight 5: Palazzo Garzadori
Palazzo Garzadori is a fifteenth-century building, located in Contrà Piancoli in Vicenza.
Sight 6: Chiesa di San Gaetano da Thiene
San Gaetano is a Roman Catholic church located on Corso Palladio #147 in the city of Vicenza, region of Veneto, Italy.
Sight 7: Ca' d'Oro
Palazzo Caldogno Dal Toso Franceschini Da Schio, better known as Ca' d'oro, is a noble palace in Vicenza, located along Corso Palladio, next to the Church of San Gaetano.
Sight 8: Chiesa di Santo Stefano
The Church of Santo Stefano is a religious building in Vicenza, Italy, built in the Baroque style between the end of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century on the site of one of the oldest chapels in the city.
Sight 9: Palazzo Barbaran da Porto
Palazzo Barbaran da Porto is a palazzo in Vicenza, Italy designed in 1569 and built between 1570 and 1575 by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.
Sight 10: Palazzo Thiene
Palazzo Thiene is a 15th-16th-century palace in Vicenza, northern Italy, designed for Marcantonio and Adriano Thiene, probably by Giulio Romano, in 1542, and revised during construction from 1544 by Andrea Palladio.
Sight 11: Chiesa di San Vincenzo
The church of San Vincenzo is a historic Catholic place of worship in Vicenza, whose construction with subsequent extensions goes from the end of the fourteenth to the first half of the eighteenth century. The façade overlooks Piazza dei Signori, in front of the Palladian Basilica, and is inserted in the center of the Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, interrupting its uniform texture.
Sight 12: Palazzo del Capitaniato
The palazzo del Capitaniato, also known as loggia del Capitanio or loggia Bernarda, is a palazzo in Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio in 1565 and built in 1571 and '72. It is located on the central Piazza dei Signori, facing the Basilica Palladiana.
Sight 13: Basilica Palladiana
Book Ticket*The Basilica Palladiana is a Renaissance building in the central Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza, north-eastern Italy. 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.
Sight 14: Museo del Gioiello
The Vicenza Jewelry Museum is a civic museum of art and design based in Vicenza, Italy. Located in the Palladian Basilica, it is a museum of jewelry design that preserves the works of jewelry artists such as James Rivière and Giò Pomodoro.
Sight 15: Casa Pigafetta
Casa Pigafetta, located in Via Pigafetta in Vicenza, is a small building completed in 1481, as meticulously recalled by the classical inscription engraved above the window on the right of the ground floor: MCCCCLXXXI / KL AUGUST.
Sight 16: Palazzo delle Opere Sociali
The Palazzo delle Opere Sociali is a venue used for events and conferences, located in Piazza Duomo 2 in Vicenza.
Sight 17: Oratorio del Gonfalone
The Oratory of the Gonfalone is an oratory built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and located in Vicenza in Piazza Duomo.
Sight 18: Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II
The monument to Vittorio Emanuele II is located in Vicenza, in Piazza Duomo.
Sight 19: Museo diocesano
The Diocesan Museum of Vicenza preserves the most precious and significant works and documents the historical, artistic and cultural path of the Vicenza Church. The museum is housed in the Bishop's Palace, built at the end of the twelfth century and expanded over the centuries, but which owes its current appearance to the interventions of the nineteenth century and the second post-war period.
Sight 20: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Annunciata
Vicenza Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It is the seat of the Bishop of Vicenza, and is dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.
Sight 21: Palazzo Trissino Trento
Palazzo Trissino al Duomo is a large building located in Via Cesare Battisti 10 in Vicenza, commissioned by Pier Francesco Trissino to Vincenzo Scamozzi in 1577 and later enlarged by Giambattista Albanese in 1621-1622 for Achille Trissino, grandson of the founder. The façade has remained a fine example of Renaissance architecture, while much of the interior decorations have been lost. Subject to historical, artistic and architectural constraints since 25 May 1960, it has been the seat of a bank since 1906.
Sight 22: Palazzo Valmarana
Book Ticket*Palazzo Valmarana is a palace in Vicenza. It was built by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1565 for the noblewoman Isabella Nogarola Valmarana. Since 1994 it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto".
Sight 23: Chiesa di San Lorenzo
The church of San Lorenzo is a Catholic place of worship in Vicenza, built at the end of the thirteenth century in Gothic style, in its Lombard-Po Valley version of the thirteenth century. It is located in the central Piazza San Lorenzo, along Corso Fogazzaro, and was officiated by the Conventual Franciscans until 2017.
Sight 24: Chiesa di San Filippo Neri
San Filippo Neri, also called the Chiesa dei Filippini or San Marcello in San Filippo Neri, is a Neoclassical-style, Roman Catholic church located on Corso Palladio #35 in the city of Vicenza, region of Veneto, Italy.
Sight 25: Palazzo Porto
The Palazzo Porto is a palace in Piazza Castello, Vicenza, northern Italy. It is one of two palazzi in the city designed by Andrea Palladio for members of the Porto family. Only two bays of it were ever built, beginning shortly after 1571. Why the patron, Alessandro Porto, did not continue with the project is not known.
Sight 26: Monumento Giuseppe Garibaldi
The monument to Garibaldi is a sculpture located in Piazza del Castello in Vicenza and is the work of the sculptor Ettore Ferrari. It was inaugurated on August 21, 1887.
Sight 27: Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare
Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare is a patrician palace in Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, probably in 1572, and built after Palladio's death by Vincenzo Scamozzi. It is one of the city palazzi of the Thiene family that Palladio worked upon, the other being Palazzo Thiene in the near contrà Porti.
Sight 28: Loggia Valmarana
The Loggia Valmarana located inside the Salvi gardens, also called Valmarana Salvi gardens, was probably built in 1591 by a student of Andrea Palladio by the will of Gian Luigi Valmarana himself, who wanted this place become a meeting point between intellectuals and academics.
Sight 29: Chiesa di Santa Maria Nova
Santa Maria Nova is a Roman Catholic church in Vicenza attributed to 1578 designs by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. It is the only complete church design in Vicenza assigned to Palladio, although he did design the Valmarana chapel in Santa Corona, a portal and the cupola of the Cathedral, and the portal of Santa Maria dei Servi.
Sight 30: Chiesa Santi Felice e Fortunato
The Basilica of Saints Felice and Fortunato is a church in Vicenza, Italy, where it is now a parish church, whose origin dates back to the 4th-5th century. its current Romanesque appearance is mainly due to the reconstruction of the twelfth century and the restorations of the twentieth century.
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