1561 In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * 1560 ** Palladian villas of the Veneto: Villa Foscari is completed and Villa Barbaro is probably begun. ** Wat Xieng Thong Buddhist temple at Luang Prabang in the kingdom of Lan Xang (modern-day Laos) is completed. ** Construction of the Uffizi in Florence, designed by Giorgio Vasari, begins. ** Construction of Mexico City Cathedral begins. ** Reconstruction of Poznań Town Hall in Poland by Giovanni Battista di Quadro is completed. * 1561 ** Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, designed by Postnik Yakovlev, is completed. ** The Tian Yi Ge library in Ningbo (Ming dynasty China) is established. * 1562–64 ** Façade of the church of San Francesco della Vigna in Venice, designed by Andrea Palladio, is built. ** Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, designed by Michelangelo, is adapted from the Baths of Diocletian. * 1562–67 – Church of San Pedro and San Pablo, Zacatlán, Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, is built. ...
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