Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Vicenza, Italy

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Number of sights 22 sights
Distance 5.4 km
Ascend 77 m
Descend 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 Vicenza

Sight 1: 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)

679 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa di San Pietro

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa e monastero di San Pietro (IT)

10 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 3: Oratorio dei Boccalotti

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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.

Wikipedia: Oratorio dei Boccalotti (IT)

425 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Palazzo Chiericati

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

Wikipedia: Palazzo Chiericati (EN)

90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Casa Cogollo

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Casa Cogollo Hans A. Rosbach / CC BY-SA 3.0

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".

Wikipedia: Casa Cogollo (EN)

143 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Teatro Olimpico

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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.

Wikipedia: Teatro Olimpico (EN), Website

250 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Gallerie di palazzo Leoni Montanari

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza (EN), Website

58 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: 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)

71 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Chiesa di Santa Corona

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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.

Wikipedia: Santa Corona, Vicenza (EN)

103 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: 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)

53 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Palazzo Sesso Zen

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Palazzo Sesso Zen is a thirteenth-century noble palace located in Vicenza, in contrà Giacomo Zanella nº 1, built in Venetian Gothic style.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Sesso Zen (IT)

167 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

308 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Palazzo Schio Vaccari Lioy

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Schio (EN)

137 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa di San Marco in San Girolamo

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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.

Wikipedia: San Marco in San Girolamo (EN)

54 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: 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 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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Misericordia (Vicenza) (IT)

404 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Chiesa di Santa Croce in San Giacomo Martire - Carmini

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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)

393 meters / 5 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)

335 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: 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 19: 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)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: 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)

473 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 21: 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

583 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 22: Teatro Spazio Bixio

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The Teatro Spazio Bixio is a theatre in Vicenza opened in 2005.

Wikipedia: Teatro Spazio Bixio (IT), Website

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