Rare books and old typewriters at 1,001 metres in Vicenza
A mountain antiques market for rare books, vintage typewriters, ceramics, coins, jewellery and old furniture.
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A bookshop praised by the Financial Times, the Remondini printing dynasty represented in the British Museum, and Italy’s oldest fountain pen manufacturer, open for factory tours. Across Vicenza province, discover some of Italy’s most beautiful bookshops, antique markets, rare prints, paper craft, unusual museums and remarkable private collections.
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.
Inside Vicenza’s former Inquisition, a lost Roman theatre and 6,000 years of local history
A lost Roman theatre, Neolithic finds, Bronze Age traps and one mysterious imperial portrait
Leather, paper and gold: the bookbinding craft of Vicenza
A family bookbinding workshop in northern Italy
An independent bookshop in Vicenza’s mountains, with a reading group in English
An address for book lovers in Asiago, with contemporary fiction, author meetings and literary evenings
Antique hunting in the chess square near Vicenza
Furniture, old books and vintage finds at a monthly market in Marostica, a medieval walled town in the province of Vicenza.
A first-Sunday market for antiques, old books and collectables in Vicenza
Old books, porcelain, vintage objects and collectables return to Piazza IV Novembre every first Sunday of the month.
Learn calligraphy inside Italy’s oldest fountain pen manufacturer
From Tolkien and James Bond to gold nibs, miniature painting and rare Italian celluloid, discover the historic Bassano manufactory featured by Forbes and The Times.
This tiny Vicenza village gave its name to 3.8 million years of Earth history
Shark teeth, an ancient dugong and the fossils behind a name still used by geologists worldwide
A Financial Times “most brilliant bookshop”, inside the Bassano palazzo where Napoleon slept
Buy a book inside a seventeenth century palazzo where Napoleon slept twice
Browse books where Vicenza’s writers have been shopping since 1880
Art and architecture books, a literary café and first editions across the street, in Vicenza’s historic centre.
Hunt for vintage across Vicenza’s Palladian centre
Antiques, vintage furniture and collectible design at Vicenza’s monthly Sunday market, among the squares of its Renaissance centre.
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
Why did Palladio build a palace above a cattle market?
Floodwater, Roman architecture and an extraordinary art collection: the Renaissance palace where Memling, Van Dyck, Tiepolo and Palladio share an unlikely history.
Hunt for rare books in Vicenza among more than 28,000 titles
Re Baldoria, antiquarian books and forgotten editions in northern Italy
Rare books, Remondini prints and old maps in Vicenza
An antiquarian bookshop for old books, maps, botanical prints and original Remondini material in one of Italy’s great historic printing towns.
From the British Museum to one of Europe’s great print empires
8,500 graphic works, 214 Dürer prints and a belvedere above the Brenta
De Chirico, Guttuso, Vedova: the Italian print studio you can work in
See the historic presses, explore the archive and print your own artwork.
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