Top Vicenza Arts & Design

Visit Villa Valmarana ai Nani near Vicenza and discover the stories behind the Palladian villa's famous dwarf statues and Tiepolo frescoes. With a multimedia tablet as your guide, you'll explore the frescoed rooms of the owner's residence and guest house along with the historical park and gardens. Learn about the Valmarana family who originally commissioned the artwork, and hear their story as the villa owners through to the present day. Most visits typically last around an hour.

The Palladian Villas Owners Network invite you to immerse yourself in our Unesco Heritage, with an itinerary to discover at least 7 places of historical interest that Palladio's brilliance has made so unique that they deserve universal recognition. In Vicenza in the 16th century, a very wealthy city in its heyday, a genius architect completely changed the face of the city and the way of conceiving architecture, becoming a timeless model. An itinerant tale in art and history, in which Vicenza offers itself to your eyes as a unique Renaissance gem in every glimpse. The only tour in the city to include the famous villa La Rotonda (on request even outside visiting hours), reaching it with a relaxing ride on a Palladian E-bike, and a visit to Palazzo Valmarana Braga, a private heritage jewel of the Palladian Unesco Vicenza. The tour ends with a small exclusive surprise, only for our customers.

Enjoy a private tour to explore a still partially unknown jewel of the Veneto region, the beautiful city of Vicenza. With a dedicated guide, you'll enter the very unique Olympic Theatre, the first indoor theater in masonry in the world. With interiors made of wood, stucco and plaster, it was constructed by architect Andrea Palladio between 1580 and 1585 and it's now included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. You'll walk through the historic center to see its most important sites, such as Chiericati palace, the "Ca’ d’Oro", Piazzetta Santo Stefano with Sesso-Zen-Fontana palace, Negri-De Salvi palace, Thiene palace, Contra’ Porti with Porto-Festa, Porto-Colleoni, Porto-Breganze e Barbaran-Porto palces. You'll also visit the beautiful Piazza dei Signori: there you might marvel at the great Basilica Palladiana, one of the masterpieces of Andrea Palladio.

The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio designed villas that shape luxury architecture even now and his work around Venice and Vicenza holds UNESCO World Heritage status. This private tour lets you visit three of the finest—La Malcontenta, Villa Emo, and Villa Barbaro—and look at privately-owned Villa Cornaro from outside. Your chauffeur will provide general information as you travel, but visits to the mansions are self-guided.

For a sampling overview of Vicenza's suburban Palladian Villas and the fascinating history of the great Architect. A splendid self-guided E-Bike ride among bucolic landscapes and works of genius that marked the history of our Golden Age. Every place in Vicenza has seen the works of this brilliant architect come to life. In the streets of the center, cobblestones recall the steps of a young stonemason who came from Padua to build the new face of the city and its fortunate countryside. Just outside the urban area, among the stones and dust of courtyards in the making, Giangiorgio Trissino coined the most famous name in modern architecture: Palladio, who, like an angel with golden wings, came to shape the forms of a new culture. In addition to the Unesco heritage sites listed in the tour details, you will also be able to pass by and admire the Oasis of the Sources of the Bacchiglione River and the beautiful Villa da Porto Pedrotti and Villa da Porto Casarotto.

Looking FOR HIDDEN TREASURES: The market Antiques and used to pitch on the Brenta. Every last Sunday of the month.In the square of the villa, in the surrounding streets and inside the former Jutificio Camerini.It is one of the biggest markets of this kind in the region, with hundreds of stalls.Also interesting for the evocative scenography Villa Contarini-Camerini is one of the largest Venetian villas. Of baroque aspect,It is located in the background of the main square of pitch Sul Brenta (Padua), Porticoed and semicircularIn 1546 Paolo and Francesco Contarini made the building the central body of the villa. The central nucleus Which is probably due to the architect Andrea Palladio,