The villas by Andrea Palladio

Most people who intend to visit the Palladian villas go to the Riviera del Brenta for the now traditional boat tour, to sail the river Brenta upstream from Venice to Padua or the other way round, and to stop along the riverside to admire the marvellous buildings the Venetian noblemen had built.

Not everybody knows, though, that most of those villas are called "Palladian" not because Palladio had them built, but because they are inspired by the principles and canons of that architecture which expresses itself best in those villas Palladio really had built, two centuries before, mainly in the province of Vicenza.

Thus, the study and the discovery of the villa can not go without a visit to the province, where Palladio left his most substantial part of his heritage, which, over the centuries, has inspired not only the villas on the river Brenta, but also the Anglo-Saxon, the French and the European world generally and stretches also overseas.

To understand the impact of the figure and the work of Palladio on worldwide architecture, just consider that "Palladianism" is the only style that gets its name from an artist.

The villas acknowledged as Palladio's are 24: 16 in the province of Vicenza, 3 in the province of Treviso, 2 in the province of Padua and one apiece in the provinces of Rovigo, Verona and Venice.

Villas-Palladio

To organize your trip in Vicenza area check opening times and rates here

Download the road map with all the villas of the province

VILLE MAPPA

Plan your visit

Open from Tuesday to Sunday,
closed on Monday.
From September to June: 9 am-5 pm, last admission 4.30 pm.
July and August: 10 am - 6 pm, last admission 5.30 pm
Closed on the 25th December and on 1st January.

 

Admission tickets:

Individual visitors
€ 20 Vicenza Card -10 sights,
€ 15 4Museums Card
€ 11.00 Teatro Olimpco
Reservation not required.
 
Groups
€15.00 Vicenza Card -10 sights,
€13.00 4 Museums Card,
€10.00 Teatro Olimpico + Palazzo Chiericati
€ 3  Ticket for schools
Reservation required:
booking@comune.vicenza.it
 
Call center: 0039 0444 964380

 
Address
Teatro Olimpico
Piazza Matteotti 11
Vicenza (Italy)

 

Information
Tel. +39 0444 320854 / 0444 964380
booking@comune.vicenza.it 

 

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