Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Vicenza, Italy

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 4.7 km
Ascend 82 m
Descend 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 Vicenza

Sight 1: Chiesa di San Giuliano

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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.

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

439 meters / 5 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 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.

Wikipedia: Oratorio dei Boccalotti (IT)

431 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: 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

143 meters / 2 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)

124 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: 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)

214 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: 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 8: 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 9: Palazzo Volpe Cabianca

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

Wikipedia: Palazzo Volpe Cabianca (IT)

132 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: 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 11: 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)

283 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Chiesa dei Santi Bernardino e Chiara

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Bernardino e Chiara (IT)

612 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 13: Arco delle Scalette

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Arco delle Scalette Hans A. Rosbach / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Arco delle Scalette is an arch in Vicenza, built in 1596, whose design is attributed to the architect Andrea Palladio.

Wikipedia: Arco delle Scalette (EN)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Oratorio delle Zitelle

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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.

Wikipedia: Oratorio delle Zitelle (IT)

388 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa di San Silvestro

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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.

Wikipedia: Complesso monumentale di San Silvestro (IT)

1006 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 16: Chiesa di San Giorgio in Gogna

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giorgio in Gogna (IT)

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