Historic Gardens, Botanical Parks & Green Escapes in Vicenza

Sleep inside Tiepolo’s painted China, wake to a forest opened after 300 years

Sleep among Giandomenico Tiepolo’s frescoes, have coffee in the historic kitchen and walk through a forest opened to the public after 300 years.

A secret garden in Vicenza, with grottoes, a pagoda and a romantic glasshouse

Giardino Jacquard, Vicenza’s secret garden of grottoes and theatrical illusions

Find the “queen of the alps”, one of Italy’s rarest mountain flowers

More than 500 mountain species at 1,350 metres, from beech woodland and alpine pasture to rare plants of the Vicenza high country

Forest bathing in 12,554 square metres of Romantic woodland made for retreat

Behind Palladio’s most famous villa, a restored nineteenth century grove brings old trees, panoramic paths, a nymphaeum and 65,000 spring bulbs into the visit.

The Renaissance garden that opened to Vicenza in 1592, then closed for two centuries

Dine in Palladio’s Early Renaissance Villa, Among Twelve Roman Emperors

A private dinner among painted Roman emperors

See a Domus Restauro Gold Medal greenhouse inside one of Vicenza’s historic parks

A 19th-century park, restored greenhouses, a neoclassical temple and two centuries of garden history

Half a palace, a 14 metre hall and Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare

A seventeenth century villa built on the Da Porto family estate where, generations earlier, a wounded Vicentine soldier wrote the novella that gave Romeo and Giulietta their names.

Palladio’s first true classical temple front on a villa

Before La Rotonda and La Malcontenta, Palladio tested here the temple front that would become one of the most influential ideas in European country house architecture.

The Palladian villa with a façade 90 degrees from the original design

a façade redesigned centuries later, and a painted world of Greek mythology, Amazons and ancient Rome.

Sixteen guests, three open fires, one entire UNESCO Palladian villa to yourselves

live with Renaissance frescoes and spend the evening inside the whole historic house

The First Voyage Around the World, an Astronomy Ceiling and Italian Grenache

Taste Tai Rosso among historic vineyards, discover a frescoed hall of astronomy and follow a family connection to the first voyage around the world.

The 15th century villa with palatial stables

Equestrian portraits, Renaissance frescoes and gardens in a house built before Palladio

How a former airport in Vicenza became one of Europe’s award winning urban landscapes

Explore 65 hectares of wetlands, canals and woodland on a former airfield

An Underground Theatre Inside a Flooded Vicenza Stone Quarry designed by David Chipperfield

A 1,880 square metre performance space in Vicenza by the 2023 Pritzker laureate

Eight monumental fireplaces, three late Tiepolo frescoes and a villa restored under Domus’ eye

Domus, the architecture and design magazine founded by Gio Ponti in 1928, chose this restored Venetian villa for a 2026 feature on conservation, landscape and contemporary living.

French Couture Dolls, Steiff Bears and Hollywood Glamour in a Venetian Villa

Nineteenth century Jumeau dolls, historic Steiff animals, Italian Furga designs and a Hollywood inspired fashion collection inside a 500 year old Venetian residence.

One of Northern Italy’s Great Romantic Gardens Through Sight, Sound and Touch

One of northern Italy’s major landscape gardens, reworked for sight, sound and touch through the European GATE project.

Have brunch in a fifteenth-century palazzo garden at a cycling club

Sunday brunch, filter coffee, bike hire, workshop, showers and five rooms inside a fifteenth-century palazzo

Why is a 9.85 metre fossil palm lying in a Palladian villa’s museum?

A Palladian villa, a secret garden in Italy and a tropical palm from thirty million years ago, all in the same afternoon.

Palladio, Scamozzi and the Valmarana Garden of Gods

A woodland walk near Vicenza, from an old icehouse to a hilltop church

An old fruit garden, castle remains and views towards the Little Dolomites.

Inside one of Italy’s largest live tropical butterfly houses

Butterflies flying among visitors, tropical orchids and picnic gardens beneath the mountains of Vicenza.

Cards, dancing and bussolà: inside a Vicenza party in 1570

Card players, musicians, dancing couples and two lovers sharing fruit and bussolà.