The Basilica Palladiana stands in the central Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza. The Council of One Hundred commissioned the well-known architect Andrea Palladio (1508 - 1580) to build it in April 1549. Vicenza by night Vicenza (population 107,223) is the capital of the province of Vicenza in the Veneto region, northern Italy at the northern base of the Monti Berici, straddling the Bacchiglione. ... Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 - August 19, 1580), or Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, was an architect born in Padua, Italy. ... Events July - Ketts Rebellion Francis Xavier arrives in Japan. ...
Palladio worked on the Basilica all his life, but only in 1614 -- thirty years after his death -- did the building stand complete. The Basilica of Saint Peter is the largest church in Christianity and often used by the Pope. ...
Nowadays it often hosts exhibitions in its large halls.
On the southeast side of the Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza stands the BasilicaPalladiana (1549-1614), Palladio's masterpiece, with open colonnades of two storys (lower part Doric and upper part Ionic), a very impressive combination.
The basilica was not built as a church but as a meeting-place for the Grand Council.
In front of the west end of the basilica is a marble statue of Palladio (1859).
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