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City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto is a
World Heritage Site
A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated by UNESCO for h ...
in Italy, which protects buildings by the architect
Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio ( ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of ...
.
UNESCO
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inscribed the site on the World Heritage List in 1994. At first the site was called "Vicenza, City of Palladio" and only buildings in the immediate area of
Vicenza
Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan.
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were included.
Various types of buildings were represented in the original site, which included the
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 what have come to be known as ...
,
Teatro Olimpico
The Teatro Olimpico ("Olympic Theatre") is a theatre in Vicenza, northern Italy, constructed in 1580–1585. The theatre was the final design by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio and was not completed until after his death. The ...
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palazzi'' in the city itself, along with a few villas in the vicinity. However, most of Palladio's surviving villas lay outside the site. In 1996 the site was expanded. Its present name reflects the fact that it includes all the
Palladian Villas of the Veneto. ''City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto'' also has some examples of ecclesiastical architecture, including the relatively small church at
Maser
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. In total there are 47 Palladian buildings registered in the UNESCO list in the Veneto region.
There is another important group of urban buildings by Palladio in
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...
, a city which also has World Heritage Site status. Venice has notable examples of ecclesiastical architecture by Palladio, including the
San Giorgio Maggiore (church), Venice
San Giorgio Maggiore (San Zorzi Mazor in Venetian) is a 16th-century Benedictine church on the island of the same name in Venice, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio, and built between 1566 and 1610. The church is a basilica in the class ...
.
List of sites in the center of Vicenza
The World Heritage List have been registered since 1994: the historic center of Vicenza with the 23 Palladian monuments located within the ancient medieval walls of the city.
List of villas
Later in 1996, the site was extended by inserting another 24 Palladian villas distributed in the
Veneto
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See also
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Palladian architecture
References
External links
Palladio MuseumArchitectural Reference drawings of The Villas of PalladioPalladio and Britain Online exhibition from the Royal Institute of British Architects
Palladio and The VenetoOnline exhibition from the Royal Institute of British Architects
Palladio Centre and Museum in Vicenza, ItalyThe Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc.website which includes material by the owners of
Villa Cornaro
Villa Cornaro is a patrician villa in Piombino Dese, about 30 km northwest of Venice, Italy. It was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1552 and is illustrated and described by him in Book Two of his 1570 masterwor ...
Official Website of the 500 Years Exhibition in Vicenza – Italy (2008)Quincentenary of Andrea Palladio's birth – Celebration CommitteeDescribes a major exhibition touring venues in Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Year of PalladioAndrea Palladio on Empty Canon*
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All He Surveyed, Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker, 30 March 2009Principles of Palladio's Architecture: II, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1945Nature and Antiquity in the Work of Andrea Palladio, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2000Digital images of 1721 and 1742 edition of The architecture of A. Palladio''Quattro libri dell'architettura''From th
Rare Book and Special Collections Divisionat the
Library of Congress
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Andrea Palladio Architecture on Google Maps*Bertotti Scamozzi, Ottavio, "
Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio : raccolta ed illustrati" 1776
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