Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Vicenza, Italy
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4.1 km
73 m
Explore Vicenza in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in VicenzaIndividual Sights in VicenzaSight 1: Chiesa di San Rocco
The church of San Rocco is a Renaissance religious building in Vicenza, Italy, located in Contra' Mure San Rocco. It was built at the end of the fifteenth century, together with the adjoining convent that housed first the Canons Regular of San Giorgio in Alga, then the seventeenth century the "teresine" Carmelite nuns, then from the early nineteenth century a brothel.
Sight 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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 9: Palazzo delle Opere Sociali
The Palazzo delle Opere Sociali is a nineteenth-century palace, located in Piazza Duomo 2 in Vicenza, Italy.
Sight 10: 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 11: 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 jewelry design museum that preserves the works of jewelry artists such as James Riviere and Giò Pomodoro.
Sight 12: 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 13: 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 14: 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 15: 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 16: 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 17: Museo Naturalistico Archeologico
The Naturalistic Archaeological Museum of Santa Corona in Vicenza, inaugurated in 1991, is located in the premises and cloisters of the former Dominican convent adjacent to the church of Santa Corona, in the historic center.
Sight 18: Palazzo Porto
Palazzo Porto is a palace built by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in Contrà Porti, Vicenza, Italy. It is one of two palaces in the city designed by Palladio for members of the Porto family. Commissioned by the noble Iseppo da Porto, just married, this building had a rather long designing stage and a longer and troublesome realization, partially unfinished.
Sight 19: Chiesa della Misericordia
The Misericordia Hospital was one of the oldest hospitals in the city of Vicenza and, for several centuries, the main orphanage in the city. Of the buildings, located in the district of the same name in Borgo Pusterla, only the church of the Misericordia remains, since 2010 officiated by the Serbian Orthodox parish of San Luca, while those used as an orphanage have been completely demolished or renovated for civil use.
Sight 20: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Aracoeli
The church of Santa Maria in Araceli is a late-Baroque style church built in the late 17th century in Vicenza according to designs attributed to Guarino Guarini.
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