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a city in northern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione. Vicenza is approximately 60 km west of Venice and 200 km east of Milan. Vicenza has an estimated population of 119,000. Vicenza is the third-largest Italian industrial city as measured by the value of its exports.
Vicenza's history dates back to pre-Roman times, but it's a Renaissance figure, Andrea Palladio, with whom the city is most associated. One of the preeminent figures in Western architecture, Palladio built more than twenty buildings here, including the Basilica Palladiana, the Palazzo Chiericati (home to Vicenza's museum and art gallery), the Teatro Olimpico (his last and some say greatest work) and many other palaces and villas, leading UNESCO to designate the city as a World Heritage Site.
Economy
The surrounding country is agricultural, but there are also quarries of marble, sulphur, copper, and silver mines, and beds of lignite and kaolin; mineral springs also abound, the most famous being those of Recoaro. The city has an active and lively industrial sector, which is especially famous for jewelry and clothing factories. The Gold Exposition is world-famous and it takes place in Vicenza three times per year (January, May, September). Other industries worthy of mention are the woollen and silk, pottery, and musical instruments. The headquarters of the bicycle component manufacturer Campagnolo are located here.
Secular buildings
The Torre Bissara (clock tower) (1224-1446).
The Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana, public library founded by Count Giovanni M. Bertolo.
Casa Pigafetta.
The Pinacotheca Civica houses mainly Vicentine paintings in the Palladian Palazzo Chiericati.
Popular dishes
Baccalà alla Vicentina
Risi e Bisi
Polenta e Osei
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