Vicenza - facades of infinity

Vicenza come not only ordinary tourists, but also architects. The local joke that the city is more like the reverse side of a nickel - a decisive influence on its shape had the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), founder of the Palladian style. It is believed that classicism was the protest against Vicenza, Venice, with its winged lions and the elements of Gothic architecture.
Tourists do not recommend coming here on Monday, when nearly all the museums are closed. The famous Basilica of Palladio market, at one time built to resemble a Venetian Rialto, Istanbul bazaar and Aleppo covered market, selling silks, jewelry, fabrics and books. Vicenza was a major Italian center for the extraction of gold and silver, but today it is known, and its gastronomic tours.

In the first place in town worth visiting Teatro Olimpico, Palladio's best-known project, created by the order of the Olympic Academy of scholars and intellectuals. In the theater, three rooms - room in 1647 was decorated with frescoes in the Greek style. There are still preserved oil lamps dating from 1585 year. The auditorium is like a theater of antiquity - it is decorated with columns and statues, and behind the scenes is a triumphal arch, behind which you can see five divergent streets. It was the scenery for "Oedipus Rex", the first performance in the theater. To illusion was more convincing, strolling through the streets of the dwarfs, and oil lamps specially made smaller. She so impressed the audience that they decided to leave. Visitors today seems like arches for they can see the legendary Thebes. From May to June, there are music festivals and in September and October on the stage of putting the Greek tragedy and drama.
Just a block away is the church of Santa Corona, built in the XIII century., Come here to look at the "Baptism of Christ" by Bellini. You can also go to the Museum of Archaeology and Natural History, and Palazzo Leoni Montanari. A stroll along the Corso Andrea Palladio, one can understand why the Vicenza called "Venice on dry land" - on this street you can see many examples of Palladian and Renaissance architecture. After a few blocks, visitors find themselves in the Piazza dei Signori, where the Basilica Palladiana, one of the early works of the architect who created the city, whose streets and now you can hear the cautious pace of eternity.