Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Vicenza, Italy

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 4.1 km
Ascend 69 m
Descend 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 Vicenza

Sight 1: Chiesa di San Rocco

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Rocco (Vicenza) (IT)

646 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Loggia Valmarana

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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.

Wikipedia: Loggia Valmarana (EN)

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Monumento Giuseppe Garibaldi

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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.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Garibaldi (Vicenza) (IT)

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di San Filippo Neri

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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.

Wikipedia: San Filippo Neri, Vicenza (EN)

228 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Palazzo Valmarana

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Palazzo Valmarana Hans A. Rosbach / CC BY-SA 3.0

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".

Wikipedia: Palazzo Valmarana (EN)

159 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Annunciata

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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.

Wikipedia: Vicenza Cathedral (EN)

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Museo diocesano

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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.

Wikipedia: Museo diocesano (Vicenza) (IT), Website

81 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Oratorio del Gonfalone

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The Oratory of the Gonfalone is an oratory built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and located in Vicenza in Piazza Duomo.

Wikipedia: Oratorio del Gonfalone (Vicenza) (IT)

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Palazzo delle Opere Sociali

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The Palazzo delle Opere Sociali is a nineteenth-century palace, located in Piazza Duomo 2 in Vicenza, Italy.

Wikipedia: Palazzo delle Opere sociali (IT)

187 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Casa Pigafetta

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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.

Wikipedia: Casa Pigafetta (IT)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Museo del Gioiello

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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.

Wikipedia: Musée du bijou de Vicence (FR), Website

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Basilica Palladiana

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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.

Wikipedia: Basilica Palladiana (EN)

149 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Palazzo del Capitaniato

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo del Capitaniato (EN)

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa di San Gaetano da Thiene

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San Gaetano is a Roman Catholic church located on Corso Palladio #147 in the city of Vicenza, region of Veneto, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Gaetano, Vicenza (EN)

60 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Ca' d'Oro

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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.

Wikipedia: Ca' d'Oro (Vicenza) (IT)

112 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Chiesa di Santo Stefano

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santo Stefano (Vicenza) (IT)

111 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Museo Naturalistico Archeologico

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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.

Wikipedia: Museo naturalistico archeologico (Vicenza) (IT)

244 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Palazzo Porto

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Porto, Vicenza (EN)

500 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 19: Chiesa della Misericordia

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Chiesa della Misericordia Marco Chemello / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Misericordia (Vicenza) (IT)

763 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 20: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Aracoeli

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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.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria in Araceli, Vicenza (EN)

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