Italy Travel - Amazing Vicenza
Vicenza is a Mecca for those who love great architecture. Considered to be Palladio's home it boasts several of his greatest works. We were able to visit these important sights:
Palazzo Chiericati
1550 Andrea Palladio combined town palace & suburban villa
(once on river harbor) now Vicenza Civic Museum
Teatro Olimpico
1580 Andrea Palladio, completed by son Silla.
Stage scenery Vicenzo Scamozzi
Casa Cogollo
1559 Andrea Palladio, exterior façade by A.P. massive, classical
Loggia del Captaniato,1565 Andrea Palladio
Completed 20 years after Basilica, (stands directly opposite)
Palladian Basilica
1549 Andrea Palladio, façade of medieval building,
double order of classical loggias
Pallazo Iseppo da Porto
1544 Andrea Palladio, like most in-town Palladian villas, a remodel, new plans forced into existing footprints
Several Palazzi of Venetian Gothic style
Dome & Portal of Cathedral
Dome: 1565 Andrea Palladio
North portal added 1575
Gothic façade remains
Palazzo Porto Breganze
1571 Andrea Palladio, incomplete first of 3 proposed
segments, building is distinct departure from more formal
Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare
1572 Vicenzo Scamozzi based on designs by Andrea Palladio
blend of villa & public building features
Loggia Valmarana,
16th century Giardino Salvi, ascribed to Palladio by unesco,
(despite uncertainty)
Villa la Rotunda
1566 Andrea Palladio temple-villa, Palladio's icon,
principles taken in part from Roman Pantheon
Villa Valmarana Ai Nani
1669, 1720, Franceso Muttoni, frescoes by Tiepolo 1757,
stables, guest house rival actual villa
The Voghera's housewife | Italia Slow Tour
Our slow tour through the Oltrepò Pavese starts from Voghera! Voghera was an important stopover on the Salt Route that began in Genoa, and a very important stopover for pilgrims travelling to and from the Holy Land. But Voghera instantly evokes the image of the housewife of Voghera that has become an emblematic figure... But who is she? Watch the video!
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Gulf of La Spezia: Tellaro | Italia Slow Tour
At the edge of the Gulf of La Spezia we find Tellaro, the adoptive village of the Italian writer Mario Soldati, perched on the rocks. From here you can continue along a series of itineraries, for instance to Porto Venere and Bocca di Magra. There is also a path for experienced excursionists.
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Olympic Theatre, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe
The 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 trompe-l'œil onstage scenery, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, to give the appearance of long streets receding to a distant horizon, was installed in 1585 for the very first performance held in the theatre, and is the oldest surviving stage set still in existence. The full Roman-style scaenae frons back screen across the stage is made from wood and stucco imitating marble. It was the home of the Accademia Olimpica, which was founded there in 1555. The Teatro Olimpico is, along with the Teatro all'antica in Sabbioneta and the Teatro Farnese in Parma, one of only three Renaissance theatres remaining in existence. Both these theatres were based, in large measure, on the Teatro Olimpico. It is still used several times a year. Since 1994, the Teatro Olimpico, together with other Palladian buildings in and around Vicenza, has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. The Teatro Olimpico is the last work by Palladio, and ranks amongst his highest masterworks. The Vicentine architect had returned to his native city in 1579, bringing with him a lifetime of detailed study into all aspects of Roman architecture, and a more detailed understanding of the architecture of classical theatre than any other living person. Palladio had illustrated Daniele Barbaro's Italian translation of Vitruvius' De architectura; the prints for this edition include floorplans for Roman theatres and an elevation for the scaenae frons of Vicenza's ruined Roman theatre, the Teatro Berga. As well, Palladio's papers include plans for the imagined reconstruction of the ruined Roman theatres in Pola and Verona. Palladio, a founder of the Olympic Academy, had already designed temporary theatre structures at various locations in the city. The most notable of these had been erected some seventeen years previously in the great hall of the Basilica Palladiana. In 1579 the Academy obtained the rights to build a permanent theatre in an old fortress, the Castello del Territorio, which had been turned into a prison and powder magazine before falling into disuse. Palladio was asked to produce a design, and despite the awkward shape of the old fortress, he decided to use the space to recreate an academic reconstruction of the Roman theatres that he had so closely studied. In order to fit a stage and seating area into the wide, shallow space, it was necessary for Palladio to flatten the semicircular seating area of the Roman theatre into an ellipse.
Italian Food: Mantuan Cuisine | Italia Slow Tour
The Province of Mantua is an agglomeration of different identities, that are made up of different culinary traditions, united by certain typical products. Follow our reporter Pat in a tasty journey through the gastronomic variations of the Mantuan Cuisine. Have you ever tasted pumpkin-filled ravioli?
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Sanremo: Ariston Theatre and Music Song Contest | Italia Slow Tour
Welcome to Sanremo. The Ariston Theatre is the theatre where for over 60 years the Italian music song contest takes place. Visit the Ariston Theatre with its owner Walter Vacchino browsing together the whole history of this place, through the flow of all the artists who performed on this stage.
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Como e le sue ville
Como è una città molto bella del Nord Italia, incanto e delizia di abitanti e viaggiatori provenienti da tutto il mondo.
Orientarsi tra le sue vie e le sue attrazioni turistiche è veramente semplice.
Arrivati in Piazza Duomo ecco il Duomo e a fianco il Palazzo del Broletto
Il Palazzo del Broletto è stato edificato nel 1215 e il suo attuale aspetto riporta il visitatore indietro al periodo del grande Rinascimento.
La realizzazione del Duomo ha richiesto ben tre secoli dando vita a un connubio armonioso di gotico e rinascimentale.
Piazza San Fedele è una delle piazze storiche delle città. Anticamente luogo del Foro romano, oggi è una delle mete turistiche più suggestive con le sue case di epoca rinascimentale con legno a vista e cotto a spina di pesce e la splendida Basilica romanica di San Fedele a cui deve il nome. Piazza San Fedele si trova nel cuore della città murata, in zona pedonale, a due passi dal Duomo e dal lungo lago, ideale per una passeggiata immersi nella storia e un giro di shopping.
Sempre a Como si può ammirare il Tempio Voltiano, un edificio dalle forme neoclassiche che ospita un museo dedicato ad Alessandro Volta e che venne costruito intorno al 1920 richiamandosi al Pantheon di Roma. Proseguendo si passa a fianco di molte ville, tra cui la maestosa Villa Olmo, una delle più belle ville neoclassiche e romantiche di tutta Italia.
Padua - historic town in the Veneto, northern Italy
Norway ; Street-Art
Norwegians love street art so much that graffiti walls and large murals decorate different parts of te capital Oslo and big cities as bergen and Stavanger. After all, Stavanger is well-known as the City of Street Art.
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Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome Italy
Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill, Rome Italy. Just to the left of the Piazza is the Vittorio Emanuele Monument and behind the square is the Roman Forum.