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Vicenza, a city in northern Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, is the capital of the eponymous province
Province of Vicenza

The Province of Vicenza is a Provinces of Italy in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Its capital is the city of Vicenza.The province has an area of 2,723 km?, and a total population of 840,000 ....
 in the Veneto
Veneto

Veneto or Venetia , is one of the 20 Regions of Italy of Italy. Its population is about 4.8 million, and its capital is Venice. Once the cradle of the renowned Republic of Venice, then a land of mass emigration, Veneto is today among the wealthiest and most industrialized regions of Italy....
 region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico
Monte Berico

The church of Monte Berico is a basilica that stands at the top of a hill which overlooks the city of Vicenza, in the Veneto....
, straddling the Bacchiglione
Bacchiglione

The Bacchiglione is a river that flows through northern Italy. It rises in the Alps and empties into the Gulf of Venice, on the Adriatic Sea, near Chioggia....
. Vicenza is approximately 60 km west of Venice and 200 km east of Milan. As of 2007, Vicenza had an estimated population of 119,038. Vicenza is the third largest Italian industrial city by export.
ntia was settled by the Italic Euganei
Euganei

The Euganei is a semi-mythical proto-Italic ethnic group that dwelt near present-day Verona. They were according to Titus Livius' The History of Rome defeated by the Adriatic Veneti and the Troy....
 and then by the Palaeo-Veneti
Veneti

Veneti may refer to:*Veneti , a Celtic tribe who once lived in what is now Brittany, France*Adriatic Veneti, a bygone people of northeastern Italy who spoke an unclassified Indo-European language...
 in the 2nd-3rd century BC, from whom it was taken by the Gauls
Gauls

The Gauls were a Continental Celtic Celts people of Classical Antiquity, the inhabitants of Gaul , and speakers of the Gaulish language.Archaeologically, they were the bearers of the La T?ne culture ....
.






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Vicenza, a city in northern Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, is the capital of the eponymous province
Province of Vicenza

The Province of Vicenza is a Provinces of Italy in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Its capital is the city of Vicenza.The province has an area of 2,723 km?, and a total population of 840,000 ....
 in the Veneto
Veneto

Veneto or Venetia , is one of the 20 Regions of Italy of Italy. Its population is about 4.8 million, and its capital is Venice. Once the cradle of the renowned Republic of Venice, then a land of mass emigration, Veneto is today among the wealthiest and most industrialized regions of Italy....
 region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico
Monte Berico

The church of Monte Berico is a basilica that stands at the top of a hill which overlooks the city of Vicenza, in the Veneto....
, straddling the Bacchiglione
Bacchiglione

The Bacchiglione is a river that flows through northern Italy. It rises in the Alps and empties into the Gulf of Venice, on the Adriatic Sea, near Chioggia....
. Vicenza is approximately 60 km west of Venice and 200 km east of Milan. As of 2007, Vicenza had an estimated population of 119,038. Vicenza is the third largest Italian industrial city by export.

History


Roman age

Vicentia was settled by the Italic Euganei
Euganei

The Euganei is a semi-mythical proto-Italic ethnic group that dwelt near present-day Verona. They were according to Titus Livius' The History of Rome defeated by the Adriatic Veneti and the Troy....
 and then by the Palaeo-Veneti
Veneti

Veneti may refer to:*Veneti , a Celtic tribe who once lived in what is now Brittany, France*Adriatic Veneti, a bygone people of northeastern Italy who spoke an unclassified Indo-European language...
 in the 2nd-3rd century BC, from whom it was taken by the Gauls
Gauls

The Gauls were a Continental Celtic Celts people of Classical Antiquity, the inhabitants of Gaul , and speakers of the Gaulish language.Archaeologically, they were the bearers of the La T?ne culture ....
. The Romans
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 conquered it to the latter in 157 BC, giving the city the name of Vicetia or Vincentia ("victorious").

The Vicentini received the Roman citizenship
Roman citizenship

Citizenship in ancient Rome was a privileged social status afforded to certain individuals with respect to laws, property, and governance.It is hard to offer meaningful generalities across the entire Roman period, as the nature and availability of citizenship was affected by legislation, for example, the Lex Iulia....
 in 49 BC. The city had some importance as a hub on the important road from Mediolanum
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
 to Aquileia
Aquileia

Aquileia is an ancient history Roman Republic city in what is now Italy, at the head of the Adriatic Sea at the edge of the lagoons, about 10 km from the sea, on the river Natiso , the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times....
, but was overshadowed by its neighbor Patavium (Padua
Padua

Padua is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 ....
). Little survives of the Roman city, but three of the bridges across the Bacchiglione and Retrone rivers are of Roman origin, and isolated arches of a Roman aqueduct
Aqueduct

File:Tomar December 2008-4.jpgAn aqueduct is a water supply or navigable canal constructed to convey water. In modern engineering, the term is used for any system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and other structures used for this purpose....
 exist outside Porta Santa Croce.

During the decline of the Western Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire

The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
, Heruls, Vandals
Vandals

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century. The Goths Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under Clovis I....
, Alaric
Alaric

Alaric is a Germanic name.Alaric may also refer to:In history:* Alaric I king of Visigoths / Barbarian general in the Roman army. Sacked Rome in 410 CE...
 and Huns
Huns

The Huns were a confederation of Central Asian Eurasian nomads or semi-nomads, who had established an empire in Eurasia. The Huns may have stimulated the Migration Period, a contributing factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire....
 laid the area to waste, but the city recovered after the Ostrogoth
Ostrogoth

The Ostrogoths were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribes that played a major role in the political events of the late Roman Empire. The other branch was the Visigoths....
 conquest in 489. It was also an important Lombard
Lombards

The Lombards were a Germanic peoples originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the Danube and from there invaded Byzantine Italian peninsula in 568 under the leadership of Alboin....
 and then Frank
Frankish Empire

Francia or Frankia, later also called the Frankish Empire , Frankish Kingdom , Frankish Realm or occasionally Frankland, was the territory inhabited and ruled by the Franks from the 3rd to the 10th century....
 centre. Numerous Benedictine
Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy....
 monasteries were built in Vicenza area, which, in particular, dried the lake that once was located north of Vicenza by export.

Middle Ages

In 899 Vicenza was destroyed by Magyar
Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
 raiders.

In 1001 Otto III handed over the government of the city to the bishop
Bishop

A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
, and its communal organization had an opportunity to develop, separating soon from the episcopal authority. It took an active part in the League with Verona and, most of all, in the Lombard League
Lombard League

The Lombard League was an alliance formed around 1167, which at its apex included most of the cities of northern Italy , including, among others, Milan, Piacenza, Cremona, Mantua, Crema, Italy, Bergamo, Brescia, Bologna, Padua, Treviso, Vicenza, Venice, Verona, Lodi, Italy, and Parma, and even some lords, such as the Marquis Malaspina and E...
 (1164-1167) against Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa compelling Padua and Treviso to join: its podestà
Podestà

Podest? is the name given to certain high officials in many Italy cities, since the later Middle Ages, mainly as Chief magistrate of a city state , but also as a local administrator, the representative of the Emperor....
, Ezzelino II il Balbo, was captain of the league. When peace was restored, however, the old rivalry with Padua, Bassano
Bassano

Bassano is an Italy surname and the name of several places in Italy....
, and other cities was renewed, besides which there were the internal factions of the Vivaresi (Ghibellines) and the Maltraversi (Guelphs).

The tyrannical Ezzelino III drove the Guelphs out of Vicenza, and caused his brother, Alberico
Alberico da Romano

Alberico da Romano , called Alberico II, was an Italian people condottiero, troubadour, and an alternatingly Guelphs and Ghibellines statesman....
, to be elected podestà (1230). The independent commune
Medieval commune

Communes in Europe during the Middle Ages were sworn allegiances of mutual defense among the citizens of a town or city. They took many forms, and varied widely in organization and makeup....
 joined the Second Lombard League against Emperor Frederick II
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick II , of the House of Hohenstaufen dynasty, was an Kingdom of Italy pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212 and unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215....
, and was sacked by that monarch (1237), after which it was annexed to Ezzelino's dominions. On his death the old oligarchic republic
Republic

A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch but in which the people have an impact on its government. The word originates from the Latin term res publica....
 political structure was restored -a consiglio maggiore ("grand council") of four hundred members and a consiglio minore ("small council") of forty members - and it formed a league with Padua, Treviso
Treviso

Treviso is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of Treviso province and the municipality has 81,627 inhabitants : some 3.000 live within the Venetian walls or in the historical and monumental center, some 80,000 live in the urban center proper, while the city hinterland has a population of approximately 170,000....
 and Verona
Verona

Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans....
. Three years later the Vicentines entrusted the protection of the city to Padua
Padua

Padua is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 ....
, so as to safeguard republican liberty; but this protectorate (custodia) quickly became dominion, and for that reason Vicenza in 1311 submitted to the Scaligeri lords of Verona
Verona

Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans....
, who fortified it against the Visconti of Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
.

Vicenza came under rule of Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 in 1404, and its subsequent history is that of Venice
Republic of Venice

The Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice . It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797....
. It was besieged by the Emperor Sigismund, and Maximilian I
Maximilian I

Maximilian I may refer to:*Maximilian of Mexico, reigned April 1864 to May 1867*Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, reigned 1508 to 1519*Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria, reigned 1597 to September 1651...
 held possession of it in 1509 and 1516.

Modern age

Vicenza was a candidate to host the Council of Trent
Council of Trent

The Council of Trent was the 16th century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Considered one of the Church's most important councils, it convened in Trento between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563 in twenty-five sessions for three periods....
.

The 16th century was the time of Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio , was a Republic of Venice architect, widely considered the most influential architect in the Architectural history. He was influenced by Roman and Greek architecture....
, who left many outstanding examples of his art with palaces and villas in the city's territory.

After 1797, under Napoleonic
Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon I of France First French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815....
 rule, it was made a duché grand-fief (not a grand duchy, but a hereditary (extinguished in 1896), nominal duchy, a rare honor reserved for French officials) within Bonaparte's personal Kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)

The Kingdom of Italy was founded in Northern Italy by Napoleon I of France, and ended with his defeat and fall.The Kingdom of Italy was born on 17 March 1805 when the Italian Republic , whose president was Napoleon, became Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy and Eug?ne de Beauharnais viceroy....
 for general Caulaincourt
Caulaincourt

Caulaincourt can refer to:* Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt , French general and diplomat* Caulaincourt, Aisne, a commune of the Aisne D?partement in France, in France...
, also imperial Grand-Écuyer.

After 1814, Vicenza passed to the Austrian Empire
Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire was a periodization successor state empire founded on a remnant of the Holy Roman Empire centered on what is today's Austria that officially lasted from 1804 to 1867....
. In 1848, however, the populous rose against Austria, but it was recovered after a stubborn resistance. As a part of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia
Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia

The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia was a kingdom in northern Italy, and part of the Austrian Empire. It was established after the defeat of Napoleon, according to the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, on 9 June 1815....
, it was annexed to Italy after the 3rd war of Italian independence
Austro-Prussian War

The Austro-Prussian War was a war fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and its German allies on one side and the Kingdom of Prussia with its German allies and Kingdom of Italy on the other, that resulted in Prussian dominance over the German states....
.

Vicenza's area was a location of fights in both World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 and World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. After the end of the latter, strong economic development made it one of the richest cities in Italy.

Vicenza is home to the United States Army
United States Army

The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
 post
Military base

A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations....
 Caserma Ederle
Caserma Ederle

Caserma Ederle is a United States Army Military base located in Vicenza, Italy. The post is the headquarters of the Southern European Task Force as well as of the 173d Airborne Brigade....
 (Camp Ederle), also known as the U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza. In 1965, Caserma Ederle
Caserma Ederle

Caserma Ederle is a United States Army Military base located in Vicenza, Italy. The post is the headquarters of the Southern European Task Force as well as of the 173d Airborne Brigade....
 became the headquarters
Headquarters

Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are concentrated. The corporate headquarters is the entity at the top of a corporation taking full responsibility managing all business activities....
 for the Southern European Task Force, and today is the central U.S. military installation in Southern Europe
Southern Europe

The term Southern Europe, at its most general definition, is used to mean 'all countries in the south of Europe'. However, the concept, at different times, has had different meanings, providing additional Policy, Linguistics and Culture context to the definition in addition to the typical Geography, Phytogeography or Clime approach....
.

In January 2006 the European Gendarmerie Force
European Gendarmerie Force

The European Gendarmerie Force or EGF was launched by an agreement in 2006 between five members of the European Union: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands....
 was inaugurated in Vicenza.

Economy

The surrounding country is agricultural, but there are also quarries of marble, sulphur, copper, and silver mines, and beds of lignite and kaolin; mineral springs also abound, the most famous being those of Recoaro. The city has an active and lively industrial sector, which is especially famous for jewelry and clothing
Clothing

A feature of all human societies, except perhaps the most primitive, is the wearing of clothing or clothes, especially in public. The primary purpose of clothing is functional, as a protection from the weather....
 factories. The Gold Exposition is world-famous and it takes place in Vicenza three times per year (January, May, September). Other industries worthy of mention are the woollen and silk, pottery, and musical instruments. The headquarters of the bicycle component manufacturer Campagnolo
Campagnolo

Campagnolo, one of the most prestigious names in cycling, is an Italy manufacturer of bicycle components with headquarters in Vicenza, Italy. The components are organised as groupsets and are a near-complete collection of a bicycle's mechanical parts....
 are located here.

Demographics


In 2007, there were 114,268 people residing in Vicenza, located in the province of Vicenza, Veneto
Veneto

Veneto or Venetia , is one of the 20 Regions of Italy of Italy. Its population is about 4.8 million, and its capital is Venice. Once the cradle of the renowned Republic of Venice, then a land of mass emigration, Veneto is today among the wealthiest and most industrialized regions of Italy....
, of whom 47.6% were male and 52.4% were female. Minors (children ages 18 and younger) totalled 17.17 percent of the population compared to pensioners who number 21.60 percent. This compares with the Italian average of 18.06 percent (minors) and 19.94 percent (pensioners). The average age of Vicenza residents is 43 compared to the Italian average of 42. In the five years between 2002 and 2007, the population of Vicenza grew by 3.72 percent, while Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 as a whole grew by 3.85 percent. The current birth rate of Vicenza is 9.16 births per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9.45 births.

As of 2006, 87.53% of the population was Italian
Italian people

The Italian people are a Southern European ethnic group located primarily in Italy and, by virtue of a wide-ranging Italian diaspora, throughout Western Europe, the Americas and Australia....
. The largest immigrant group comes from other Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an nations (the largest being Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
, Albania
Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
, and Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
): 6.28%, South Asian 1.85%, sub-saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is a geographical term used to describe the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara, or those African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara....
: 1.44%, and North Africa
North Africa

North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa.Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Northern Africa includes the following seven countries or territories:...
: 1.36%. Currently one quarter babies born in Vicenza has at least one foreign parent. The city is predominantly Roman Catholic, but due to immigration now has some Orthodox Christian, Muslim
Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
 and Sikh
Sikh

Sikh is the title and name given to an adherent of Sikhism. The term has its origin in the Sanskrit ' "disciple, learner" or ' "instruction"....
 followers.
Vicenza Basilica Palladiana E Piazza Dei Signori
Vicenza Centro Storico

Main sights


In 1994 UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
 inscribed "Vicenza, City of Palladio" on its list of World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
s. In 1996 the site was expanded to include the Palladian villas outside the core area, and accordingly renamed "City of Palladio and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto".

Palladio's works

Vicenza is home to twenty-three buildings designed by Palladio. The famous ones include:

  • The Villa Capra (also known as "La Rotonda"), located just outside the downtown area;
  • The Basilica Palladiana
    Basilica Palladiana

    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 the what came to be known as the Palladian architecture#The Palladian window, designed by a young Andrea Palladio, whose work in a...
    , centrally located in Vicenza's Piazza dei Signori, of which Palladio himself said that it might stand comparison with any similar work of antiquity;
  • The Teatro Olimpico
    Teatro Olimpico

    The Teatro Olimpico is a theatre in Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio as his last work. It is widely considered the first example of covered theatre of the Modern age....
    , designed for the Accademia Olimpica. Construction had started on this project when Palladio died in 1580. The wooden scenes are by Vincenzo Scamozzi
    Vincenzo Scamozzi

    Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Republic of Venice architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Venice area in the second half of the 16th century....
    ;
  • Palazzo Chiericati
    Palazzo Chiericati

    Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza , designed by Andrea Palladio....
    , home of the Town pinacotheca;
  • Palazzo Barbaran da Porto
    Palazzo Barbaran da Porto

    Palazzo Barbaran Da Porto is a palazzo in Vicenza, Italy designed in 1569 and built between 1570 and 1575 by Andrea Palladio.Since 1994 the palace is part of the "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto" World Heritage Site by UNESCO....
    , home of the Museo Palladio;
  • Palazzo del Capitaniato
    Palazzo del Capitaniato

    File:Palazzo del Capitanio 2 - Vicenza.jpgThe palazzo del Capitaniato, also kwnown as loggia del Capitanio or loggia Bernarda, is a palazzo in Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio in 1565 and built between 1571 and 1572....
    , home of the Town council
  • Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello;
  • Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare
    Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare

    File:PalazzoThieneBonin-Longare20070705-03.jpgFile:PalazzoThieneBonin-Longare20070705-02.jpgPalazzo Thiene Bonin Longare is a patrician palace in Vicenza designed by Andrea Palladio probably in 1572 and built after Palladio's death by Vincenzo Scamozzi....
  • Palazzo Thiene
    Palazzo Thiene

    Palazzo Thiene is a 15th Century palazzo in Vicenza, northern Italy, restored by architect Andrea Palladio since 1542 for Marcantonio and Adriano House of Thiene ....
    ;
  • Villa Gazzotti Grimani
    Villa Gazzotti Grimani

    The Villa Gazzotti Grimani is a Renaissance villa, an early work of architecture Andrea Palladio, located in the village of Bertesina, near Vicenza in the Veneto region of northern Italy....
    , in the frazione
    Frazione

    A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere....
     Bertesina.


Other sights


Churches
  • The cathedral, dating from early in the 11th century, and restored in the 13th, 16th, and 19th, possesses numerous pictures and sculptures, nearly all of them by Vicentine artists (Cittadello, Celestia, Liberi
    Liberi

    Liberi is a comune in the Province of Caserta in the Italy region Campania, located about 45 km north of Naples and about 15 km north of Caserta....
    , Ruschi).
  • The Church of Araceli (1244), by Guarino Guaroini, formerly belonged to the Clarisses, contains statues by Orazio Marinali
    Orazio Marinali

    Orazio Marinali was an Italy late-baroque sculptor, active mainly in the Veneto or Venetian mainland.He trained with Josse de Corte. He is best known for over 150 statues produced by him and his studio for the estate and gardens of a single villa in Vicenza, the Villa Lampertico ....
     and Cassetti, and paintings by Tiepolo.
  • The Churches of the Carmini (1372) and St. Catherine (1292), formerly belonging to the Humiliati, possess notable pictures.
  • Santa Corona (1260) was built by the Dominicans after the death of Ezzelino, and is pictures by Montagna (The Magdelene) and Relline (Baptism of Christ).
  • Santa Croce (1179)
  • SS. Felice and Fortunato (8th century)
  • SS. Filippo and Giacomo (12th century)
  • S. Lorenzo of the Friars Minor (1280), in the Gothic style, contains the tombs of many illustrious Vicentines.
  • In the cloister of S. Maria of the Servites (1319) took place the miracles of St. Philip Benizi de Damiani
    Philip Benizi de Damiani

    Saint Philip Benizi de Damiani was a general superior of the Order of the Servites....
    .


Secular buildings
  • The Torre Bissara (clock tower) (1224-1446).
  • The Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana, public library founded by Count Giovanni M. Bertolo.
  • Casa Pigafetta.
  • The Pinacotheca Civica houses mainly Vicentine paintings in the Palladian Palazzo Chiericati
    Palazzo Chiericati

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


Sport


Vicenza is home to Vicenza Calcio
Vicenza Calcio

Vicenza Calcio is an Italy football club based in Vicenza, Veneto. The club was formed in 1902 and currently plays in Serie B, having spent the entire 60's and a large part of the 90's in Serie A....
 who currently play in Serie B
Serie B

Serie B is the name of the second highest football league in Italy. It consists of 22 teams. The championship is often called the cadetti, which means 'juniors' or 'cadets', or campionato cadetto....
. Their home is the Stadio Romeo Menti
Stadio Romeo Menti

Stadio Romeo Menti is the name of three stadiums in Italy:* Stadio Romeo Menti * Stadio Romeo Menti * Stadio Romeo Menti...
.

Popular dishes

  • Baccalà alla Vicentina
    Baccalà alla vicentina

    Baccal? alla vicentina is an Italian fish dish native to Vicenza made from baccal?, dried unsalted cod, served on or next to polenta....
  • Risi e Bisi
  • Polenta e Osei


The inhabitants of Vicenza are jestly known to other Italians as magnagati 'cat eaters'. Purportedly, Vicentinos turned to cats for sustenance during times of famine.

Famous people from Vicenza

  • Flavio Albanese, architect
  • Roberto Baggio
    Roberto Baggio

    Roberto Baggio is a retired Italians Association football, among the most technically gifted and popular players in the world throughout the 1990s and early 2000s....
    , football player
  • Giuseppina M. Bakhita, saint
  • Fernando Bandini, writer
  • Valerio Belli
    Valerio Belli

    Valerio Belli , also knowm as Valerio Vicentino, was an Italy engraver and medallion maker active in the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Vicenza....
    , sculptor and engraver
  • Maria Bertilla Boscardin
    Maria Bertilla Boscardin

    Maria Bertilla Boscardin was an Italian nun and nurse who displayed a pronounced devotion to duty in working with sick children and victims of the airstrike of World War I....
    , saint
  • Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, architect
  • Gelindo Bordin
    Gelindo Bordin

    Gelindo Bordin is an Italy former Athletics , winner of the Marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Born at Vicenza, Bordin made his first breakthrough at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics where he won a gold medal....
    , athlete
  • Roberto Busa
    Roberto Busa

    Roberto Busa is an italy Jesuit priest and one of the pioneers in the usage of computers for linguistic and literary analysis. He is the author of the Index Thomisticus, a complete lemmatization of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas and of a few related authors....
    , religious and informatic engineer
  • Tullio Campagnolo
    Tullio Campagnolo

    Gentullio Campagnolo was an Italy racing cyclist and inventor who patented the quick release skewer and started the bicycle component design and manufacturing company that bears his name -- Campagnolo, S.R.L....
    , bicycle maker
  • Domenico Cerato, priest and architect
  • Francesco Chieregati
    Francesco Chieregati

    Francesco Chieregati was a papal nuncio and Bishop ....
    , papal nuncio, bishop
  • Luigi Da Porto
    Luigi Da Porto

    Luigi Da Porto was an Italy writer and storiographer, better known as the author of the novel with the story of Romeo and Juliet, later reprised by William Shakespeare for his famous drama....
    , writer
  • Almerico da Schio, astronomer and inventor
  • Otello De Maria, painter
  • Ilvo Diamanti
    Ilvo Diamanti

    Biography* Diamanti Ilvo is an Italian political scientist.* Ilvo Diamanti graduated from the University of Padua with a degree in Political Science, and completed his Doctorate in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento....
    , political scientist
  • Federico Faggin
    Federico Faggin

    Federico Faggin is an Italy-born physicist/electrical engineer, principally responsible for the design of the first microprocessor and responsible for leading the Intel 4004 to its successful outcome and for promoting its marketing....
    , inventor
  • Adolfo Farsari
    Adolfo Farsari

    Adolfo Farsari was an Italy Photography based in Yokohama, Japan. Following a brief military career, including service in the American Civil War, he became a successful entrepreneur and commercial photographer....
    , photographer
  • Ferreto dei Ferreti, historian (fourteenth century)
  • Antonio Fogazzaro
    Antonio Fogazzaro

    Antonio Fogazzaro was an Italy novelist....
    , writer
  • Giovanni Giaconi, artist
  • Antonio Giuriolo, partisan
  • Fedele Lampertico, economist, writer and politician
  • Niccolò Leoniceno
    Niccolò Leoniceno

    Niccol? Leoniceno was an Italy physician and humanist.He was born in Lonigo, Veneto, the son of a doctor. His teacher was Pelope , a Croatian apothecary....
    , medic
  • Paolo Lioy, naturalist
  • Luigi Meneghello
    Luigi Meneghello

    Luigi Meneghello was an Italy contemporary writer and scholar....
    , writer (professor at Reading University)
  • Francesco Muttoni, architect
  • Andrea Palladio
    Andrea Palladio

    Andrea Palladio , was a Republic of Venice architect, widely considered the most influential architect in the Architectural history. He was influenced by Roman and Greek architecture....
    , architect
  • Goffredo Parise
    Goffredo Parise

    Goffredo Parise was an Italy writer and journalist. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 and the Strega Prize in 1982....
    , writer
  • Antonio Pigafetta
    Antonio Pigafetta

    Antonio Pigafetta , was a Republic of Venice scholar born in Vicenza. He was engaged to accompany and assist the Portugal captain Ferdinand Magellan and his Spanish crew on their trip to the Maluku Islands....
    , explorer, companion of Ferdinand Magellan
    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese people List of maritime explorers who, while in the service of the Spanish Crown, tried to find a westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia....
  • Guido Piovene, journalist and writer
  • Orlando Pizzolato
    Orlando Pizzolato

    Orlando Pizzolato is a retired long-distance Running from Italy, who represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 16th place ....
    , athlete
  • Manuel Righele, novelist and short story writer
  • Sergio Romano, diplomatic and historician
  • Paolo Rossi
    Paolo Rossi

    Paolo Rossi is an Italy former Association football Forward . In 1982, he led Italy national football team to the 1982 FIFA World Cup title, scoring six goals to win the World Cup Golden Boot/maximo goleador honors, and the FIFA_World_Cup_awards#Golden_Ball....
    , football player
  • Mariano Rumor
    Mariano Rumor

    Mariano Rumor was an Italian politician, a member of the Democrazia Cristiana and several times Prime Minister of Italy.He was born in Vicenza, Veneto....
    , politician
  • Flo Sandon's
    Flo Sandon's

    Mammola Sandon, known by the stage name of Flo Sandon's , was an Italian singer who was popular in the post-World War II years. She won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1953 with the song "Viale d'autunno"....
    , singer
  • Vincenzo Scamozzi
    Vincenzo Scamozzi

    Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Republic of Venice architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Venice area in the second half of the 16th century....
    , architect
  • Gian Antonio Stella, journalist and writer
  • Tiziano Treu, politician
  • Vitaliano Trevisan, writer and actor
  • Gian Giorgio Trissino
    Gian Giorgio Trissino

    File:Vincenzo Catena Portrait of Gian Giorgio Trissino.jpgGian Giorgio Trissino was an Italy Renaissance Humanism, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian....
    , humanist and poet (1478-1553)
  • Nicola Vicentino
    Nicola Vicentino

    Nicola Vicentino was an Italy music theory and composer of the Renaissance music. He was one of the most visionary musicians of the age, inventing, among other things, a microtonal keyboard, and devising a practical system of chromaticism writing two hundred years before the rise of equal temperament....
    , theorist and composer
  • Giacomo Zanella
    Giacomo Zanella

    Giacomo Zanella was an Italy poet....
    , writer and priest
  • Amy Adams , American actress
  • Mark Nightshade, American Primitive Folk Artist / Folk Artist on Tour Painting the Working Class of Italy


Twin cities

Annecy
Annecy

Annecy is a city in the Rh?ne-Alpes Regions of France in southeastern France. It lies on northern tip of Lake Annecy , 35 kilometers south of Geneva....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, from 1995 Pforzheim
Pforzheim

Pforzheim is a town of nearly 119,000 inhabitants in the state of Baden-W?rttemberg, southwest Germany at the gate to the Black Forest. It is world-famous for its jewelry and watch-making industry....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, from 1991

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See also

  • Collegia Vicentina
  • Diocese of Vicenza
  • Caserma Ederle
    Caserma Ederle

    Caserma Ederle is a United States Army Military base located in Vicenza, Italy. The post is the headquarters of the Southern European Task Force as well as of the 173d Airborne Brigade....
    -US Army Post


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