Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Vicenza, Italy
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4.7 km
85 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 Giuliano
The church of San Giuliano is a religious building in Vicenza, Italy. Built on previous buildings in the last years of the seventeenth century, it is located in Corso Padova, 57. Nearby - and in communication with it - is the Salvi Institute, which occupies the buildings of the convent once annexed to the church.
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 oratory of the muds is an oratory, located in Vicenza in Piazzetta San Pietro, built at the beginning of the fifteenth century, at the time attached to the hospital of Santa Maria and dei Santi Pietro and Paolo.
Sight 4: 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 5: Casa Cogollo
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: 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 7: Palazzo Chiericati
The Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio.
Sight 8: Astra
The Astra Theatre is a theatre in Vicenza built between 1934 and 1936 and owned by the municipality.
Sight 9: Palazzo Volpe Cabianca
Palazzo Volpe Cabianca is a fifteenth-century building, renovated in the sixteenth, located in contrà Jacopo Cabianca 8 in Vicenza.
Sight 10: Palazzo Garzadori
Palazzo Garzadori is a fifteenth-century building, located in Contrà Piancoli in Vicenza.
Sight 11: Oratorio di San Nicola
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.
Sight 12: Chiesa dei Santi Bernardino e Chiara
The church of the Bernardino and Chiara Santi, commonly known as the church of Santa Chiara, is a religious building in Vicenza, located in Contrà Santa Chiara, built in Renaissance style at the end of the fifteenth century for the homonymous monastery of the Clarisse. It is currently an dependence of the Palazzolo institute of the Sisters of the Poarsses.
Sight 13: Arco delle Scalette
The Arco delle Scalette is an arch in Vicenza, built in 1596, whose design is attributed to the architect Andrea Palladio.
Sight 14: Oratorio delle Zitelle
The Oratory of the Zitelle is an oratory built in the mid-seventeenth century for the "Pious House of Santa Maria delle Vergini", also known as the "Hospice of the Zitelles" and located in Vicenza in Contrà Santa Caterina in the area of Borgo Berga.
Sight 15: Chiesa di San Silvestro
The monumental complex of San Silvestro in Vicenza is what remains of the Benedictine monastery probably built in the eighth century and now completely renovated, consisting of the church with three naves with semicircular apses and the monastic area, used in recent times with a university residence, now abandoned Following the sagging and cracks in numerous areas of the building, as a consequence of the 2012 Earthquake of 2012.
Sight 16: Chiesa di San Giorgio in Gogna
The church of San Giorgio in Gogna is one of the oldest churches in Vicenza, certainly dating back to before the year 1000. It is located in Viale Fusinato.
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