Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Vicenza, Italy

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Number of sights 34 sights
Distance 6.2 km
Ascend 89 m
Descend 85 m

Experience Vicenza in Italy in a whole new way with our free 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 Vicenza

Sight 1: Chiesa di San Pietro

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The church and monastery of San Pietro, which gave its name to the homonymous village 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 women's settlement in the Vicenza area. The church has become the parish seat, while the former monastery is used as a care institution for the elderly.

Wikipedia: Chiesa e monastero di San Pietro (IT)

435 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Palazzo Chiericati

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The Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Chiericati (EN)

373 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Astra

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The Astra Theatre is a theatre in Vicenza built between 1934 and 1936 and owned by the municipality.

Wikipedia: Teatro Astra (IT), Website

201 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Palazzo Volpe Cabianca

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The Palazzo Volpe Cabianca is a fifteenth-century building, renovated in the sixteenth century, located in contrà Jacopo Cabianca 8 in Vicenza.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Volpe Cabianca (IT)

132 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Palazzo Garzadori

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Palazzo Garzadori is a fifteenth-century building, located in Contrà Piancoli in Vicenza.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Garzadori (IT)

135 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Oratorio di San Nicola

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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.

Wikipedia: Oratory of San Nicola da Tolentino, Vicenza (EN)

288 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Casa Pigafetta

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Casa Pigafetta, located in Via Pigafetta in Vicenza, is a small building completed in 1481, as the classical inscription engraved above the window on the right of the ground floor meticulously recalls: MCCCCLXXXI / KL AUGUST.

Wikipedia: Casa Pigafetta (IT)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: 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 museum of jewelry design that preserves the works of jewelry artists such as James Rivière and Giò Pomodoro.

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

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: 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 10: 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)

71 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Chiesa di San Vincenzo

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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.

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

132 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: 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 13: 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, Italy, located along Corso Palladio, next to the Church of San Gaetano.

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

112 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: 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)

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Palazzo Thiene

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Thiene (EN)

30 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 16: Palazzo Barbaran da Porto

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Barbaran da Porto (EN), Website

314 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di San Lorenzo

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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.

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

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: 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)

86 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Palazzo Trissino Trento

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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 decoration has been lost. Subject to historical and artistic architectural constraints since 25 May 1960, it has been the headquarters of a bank since 1906.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Trissino al Duomo (IT)

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Palazzo delle Opere Sociali

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The Palazzo delle Opere Sociali is a venue used for events and conferences, located in Piazza Duomo 2 in Vicenza.

Wikipedia: Palazzo delle Opere sociali (IT)

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: 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)

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: Palazzo vescovile

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The Bishop's Palace, or Bishopric, is a large and historic palace in Vicenza, once the seat of the bishop and still of the Diocesan Museum, which overlooks the Piazza del Duomo, a few meters from the Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunciata.

Wikipedia: Palazzo vescovile (Vicenza) (IT)

2 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 23: Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II

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The monument to Vittorio Emanuele II is located in Vicenza, in Piazza Duomo.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II (Vicenza) (IT)

13 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 24: 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 set up 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

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 25: 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)

222 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 26: Palazzo Porto

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello (EN)

107 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 27: 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)

73 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 28: Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare (EN)

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 29: 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)

215 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 30: 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)

402 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 31: Chiesa di Santa Maria Nova

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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.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Nova, Vicenza (EN)

418 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 32: Teatro Comunale

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Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza is a modern theatre structure consisting of a main hall, the “Sala Maggiore”, with 910 seats and a second one with 380 seats, and the so-called “Ridotto”. The structure was planned by the architect Gino Valle and inaugurated in December 2007. It is located in Vicenza, Italy, a city included in the World Heritage List UNESCO, not far away to Venice.

Wikipedia: Teatro comunale Città di Vicenza (EN), Website

574 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 33: Chiesa Santi Felice e Fortunato

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The Basilica of Saints Felice and Fortunato is a church in Vicenza, Italy, whose origin dates back to the IV-V century. its current Romanesque appearance is essentially due to the reconstruction of the twelfth century and the restorations of the twentieth century.

Wikipedia: Basilica dei Santi Felice e Fortunato (IT)

696 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 34: Teatro Spazio Bixio

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The Teatro Spazio Bixio is a theater structure in Vicenza inaugurated in 2005.

Wikipedia: Teatro Spazio Bixio (IT), Website

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