The XVI century was for Vicenza, a moment of great art and the culture revival due to a long period of relative tranquillity under the “Serenissima Republic of Venice’s protection. It was also and especially the century of the great architect, Andrea Palladio, who found in Vicenza his nation of adoption and due to some important men of culture of the moment, he moved the first steps towards a path that would have made him well-known over the centuries.
Nowadays, the creative genius of Palladio is world-widely recognised.
No doubt that Palladio is considered the greatest and most innovative architects of his century and of all times.
Many of his pieces of work, steeped in a classicism style and in a purity of lines never compared before, are rightly part of the World Heritage of Humanity, as recognised by the Unesco in 1994.