Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Vicenza, Italy
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5.4 km
75 m
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 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.
Sight 2: 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 3: Oratorio dei Boccalotti
The Boccalotti Oratory is an oratory, located in Vicenza in Piazzetta San Pietro, built at the beginning of the fifteenth century, at that time annexed to the hospital of Santa Maria and Saints Peter and Paul.
Sight 4: Palazzo Chiericati
The Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio.
Sight 5: Casa Cogollo
![Casa Cogollo](/static/images/wikipedia/Italy_Vicenza_Casa-Cogollo.jpg)
Casa Cogollo is a small palazzo in Vicenza built in 1559 and attributed to architect Andrea Palladio. Since 1994 it has formed part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto".
Sight 6: Teatro Olimpico
The Teatro Olimpico is a theatre in Vicenza, northern Italy, constructed in 1580–1585. It was the final design by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio and was not completed until after his death. The trompe-l'œil onstage scenery, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi to give the appearance of long streets receding to a distant horizon, was installed in 1585 for the first performance held in the theatre, and is the oldest surviving stage set still in existence. The full Roman-style scaenae frons back screen across the stage is made from wood and stucco imitating marble. It was the home of the Accademia Olimpica, which was founded there in 1555.
Sight 7: Gallerie di palazzo Leoni Montanari
The Palazzo Leoni Montanari is a late Baroque palace located in Contra’ San Corona number 25 in central Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy. It now houses exhibition rooms, meeting places, and art collections owned by the bank Intesa Sanpaolo.
Sight 8: 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 9: Chiesa di Santa Corona
Santa Corona is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located in Vicenza, region of Veneto, Italy. The church contains the Valmarana chapel, whose design is attributed to the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. Palladio himself was initially buried in this church.
Sight 10: 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 11: Palazzo Sesso Zen
Palazzo Sesso Zen is a thirteenth-century noble palace located in Vicenza, in contrà Giacomo Zanella nº 1, built in Venetian Gothic style.
Sight 12: 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 13: Palazzo Schio Vaccari Lioy
Palazzo Schio is a patrician palace of the 16th century in Vicenza, northern Italy, whose facade was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1565.
Sight 14: Chiesa di San Marco in San Girolamo
The Church of San Marco in San Girolamo is a baroque parish church in Vicenza, northern Italy, built in the 18th century by the Discalced Carmelites. It houses various artworks by artists of the early 18th century from Veneto. The sacristy preserves its original furniture of the same period.
Sight 15: Chiesa della Misericordia
![Chiesa della Misericordia](/static/images/wikipedia/Italy_Vicenza_Chiesa-della-Misericordia.jpg)
The Misericordia hospital was one of the oldest hospitals in the city of Vicenza and, for some centuries, the main orphanage of the city. Of the buildings, located in the homonymous district in Borgo Pusterla, now only the church of Misericordia remains, from 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 16: Chiesa di Santa Croce in San Giacomo Martire - Carmini
The church of Santa Croce in San Giacomo Maggiore known as dei Carmini is a religious building in Vicenza, Italy, located in Piazza dei Carmini at the end of Corso Fogazzaro. The Carmelite convent was attached to it, hence the nickname by which it is still known. Renovated in the sixties of the nineteenth century in neo-Gothic style, it is the parish seat.
Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Croce in San Giacomo Maggiore (IT)
Sight 17: 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 18: 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 19: Chiesa di Santa Maria Nova
![Chiesa di Santa Maria Nova](/static/images/wikipedia/Italy_Vicenza_Chiesa-di-Santa-Maria-Nova.jpg)
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 20: 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 21: Teatro Comunale
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.
Sight 22: Teatro Spazio Bixio
The Teatro Spazio Bixio is a theatre in Vicenza opened in 2005.
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