Why did Vicenza name a cake after a cat?
The story behind a local cake made with Marano cornmeal, honey and grappa, and where to buy it
CURATED COLLECTIONS
Curated collections in Vicenza
A Pantheon inspired Renaissance villa you can rent, a Chinese pagoda in a forest reopened after 300 years, and the Vicenza chronicler of the first voyage around the world. Discover some of Italy’s most unusual hidden gems, from rare villa stays and unexpected Japanese connections to canyon swimming, Alpine astronomy and remarkable European cultural histories.
Sleep in a 1920s village school and wake up to breakfast under the lime trees
Five rooms named after school subjects, a teacher’s attic bedroom and a breakfast inspired by childhood
Casa Pigafetta in Vicenza: find the 1481 motto of the man who chronicled the first voyage around the world
A Gothic façade, a family motto and a direct link to Magellan’s expedition
Build and launch a rocket in Vicenza’s mountain observatory
A mountain escape in northern Italy for children who dream of space
Why is there a Pantheon in Vicenza?
A private Renaissance masterpiece you can rent for a week
Chase waterfalls and walk inside a giant forest nest in Vicenza
3.7 km of waterfalls, woodland and monumental land art
Climb and walk on a 30 million year old coral reef
A fossil reef south of Vicenza, with climbing walls, caves, geological trails and views across the plain.
How a British mirror became Italy’s largest optical telescope
Find Italy’s largest optical telescope in Vicenza mountains
Paddle into Vicenza through its medieval water gate
Follow the Retrone from the green edge of the city to Renaissance palaces, Roman port remains and the old river entrance
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.
The indoor skatepark built by volunteers and recycled materials
An indoor skatepark built with recycled materials, with lessons, free skate, punk gigs, jams, exhibitions and workshops.
Why is there a Lofoten square in Vicenza and a Sandrigo island in Norway?
The Lofoten address behind Bacalà alla Vicentina
Hike, bike and ski the “Finland of Italy” in Vicenza
Nordic skiing, snowshoeing and summer trails on the Asiago Plateau
The root behind Rapunzel
The edible roots and leaves associated with the fairy tale, with five restaurant addresses for the winter season.
You could be the next Romeo or Juliet
Play one of the lovers at Romeo and Juliet’s castles near Vicenza, during a medieval festival that gives the famous romance two new faces every year.
Walk the pasubio road, featured among "The world’s most dangerous roads”
52 tunnels, sheer limestone cliffs and a spiral ascent inside a rock tower in the mountains of northern Italy.
The vegetable that found a second home in Japan
A winter specialty from the hills of Creazzo, with the local restaurants that grow it, cook it and still put it on the menu
The lost Roman theatre that inspired Palladio
Follow its vanished curve through modern streets, find Roman walls inside later buildings and compare Palladio’s drawing with the city that grew over it
Inside one of Italy’s largest live tropical butterfly houses
Butterflies flying among visitors, tropical orchids and picnic gardens beneath the mountains of Vicenza.
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
Be a farmer for a day: wild mountain herbs, botanical printing and butter making
An old mountain farmhouse where children discover milk, cheese and the colours hidden in plants.
Learn to read a star by its rainbow, in the same observatory where Margherita Hack studied starlight
An evening astronomy workshop with spectrum glasses and the Galileo telescope.
Look from Romeo’s hilltop castle to Juliet’s across the valley
A trip in Vicenza to the castles of Romeo and Juliet
Swim in a mountain biolake at 1,096 metres
Summer swims, sunloungers and woodland walks in Vicenza’s mountains
Find the gilded moon that follows the lunar cycle
A lunar clock documented here since 1597
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