A report on Padua, Vicenza and Veneto

Remnants of Padua's Roman amphitheatre wall

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto

The Botanical Garden of Padova today; in the background, the Basilica of Sant'Antonio

The unfinished façade of Padua Cathedral

Clock tower and Lion of St. Mark, symbol of the Serenissima Repubblic

The three-dimensional stage of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza

Last Judgment by Giotto, part of the Scrovegni Chapel.

Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare, designed by Palladio and built by Vincenzo Scamozzi

Plaque for Vicenza in the UNESCO World Heritage List

The Tetrarchs were the four co-rulers who governed the Roman Empire as long as Diocletian's reform lasted. Here they are portrayed embracing, in a posture of harmony, in a porphyry sculpture dating from the 4th century, produced in Anatolia, located today on a corner of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

A plate of Baccalà alla vicentina, a typical dish of the city

The Horses of Saint Mark, brought as loot from Constantinople in 1204.

This tempera, Two Christians before the Judges, hangs in the city's Cathedral.

An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.

The 13th-century Castel Brando in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso.

St Mark's Basilica, the seat of the Patriarch of Venice.

Loggia Amulea, as seen from Prato della Valle

Torre degli Anziani as seen from Piazza della Frutta

The Astronomical clock as seen from Piazza dei Signori

The Prato della Valle in Padua, a work of Italian Renaissance architecture.

Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss.

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice

A trait that shows the structure of the Calà del Sasso

Padua (Padova ; Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy.

- Padua

It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione River.

- Vicenza

Padua stands on the Bacchiglione River, 40 km west of Venice and 29 km southeast of Vicenza.

- Padua

The citizens of Vicetia received Roman citizenship and were inscribed into the Roman tribe Romilia in 49 BC. The city was known for its agriculture, brickworks, marble quarry, and wool industry and had some importance as a way-station on the important road from Mediolanum (Milan) to Aquileia, near Tergeste (Trieste), but it was overshadowed by its neighbor Patavium (Padua).

- Vicenza

Este, Padua, Oderzo, Adria, Vicenza, Verona, and Altino became centres of Venetic culture.

- Veneto

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Verona

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The Lion of Saint Mark, located in Piazza delle Erbe, the symbol of the Venetian Republic

The Arche scaligere, tombs of the ancient lords of Verona

Panoramic view of the city from Castel San Pietro

Palazzo del Governo is the seat of the Province of Verona

San Zeno Basilica, like many other Veronese churches, is built with alternating layers of white stone and bricks

Verona (, ; Verona or Veròna) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants.

In 1164 Verona joined with Vicenza, Padua and Treviso to create the Veronese League, which was integrated with the Lombard League in 1167 to battle against Frederick I Barbarossa.

Venice

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Venice in autumn, with the Rialto Bridge in the background

Venice view from the Bridge Priuli a Santa Sofia, to the Bridge de le Vele

St Mark's Basilica houses the relics of St Mark the Evangelist

The Doge's Palace, the former residence of the Doge of Venice

The Republic of Venice and its colonial empire Stato da Màr.

Piazza San Marco in Venice, with St. Mark's Campanile.

View of San Giorgio Maggiore Island from St. Mark's Campanile.

Monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400-1475), captain-general of the Republic of Venice from 1455 to 1475.

The Fra Mauro Map of the world. The map was made around 1450 and depicts Asia, Africa and Europe.

Venice viewed from the International Space Station

Venice and surroundings in false colour, from Terra. The picture is oriented with North at the top.

Acqua alta ("high water") in Venice, 2008

Like Murano, Burano is also a tourist destination, usually reached via vaporetto

Bridge of Sighs, one of the most visited sites in the city

Venetian Arsenal houses the Naval Historical Museum

Piazzetta San Marco with Doge's Palace on the left and the columns of the Lion of Venice and St. Theodore in the center.

Gondolas share the waterway with other types of craft (including the vaporetti)

Cruise ships access the port of Venice through the Giudecca Canal.

Cruise ship and gondolas in the Bacino San Marco

Aerial view of Venice including the Ponte della Libertà bridge to the mainland.

Giudecca Canal. View from St Mark's Campanile.

Sandolo in a picture of Paolo Monti of 1965. Fondo Paolo Monti, BEIC.

Cruise ships at the passenger terminal in the Port of Venice (Venezia Terminal Passeggeri)

Marco Polo International Airport (Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo)

An 18th-century view of Venice by Venetian artist Canaletto.

The Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti is an example of Venetian Gothic architecture alongside the Grand Canal.

The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the most prestigious and publicized.

Francesco Guardi's Regatta in Venice, Guardi was a member of the Venetian School.

The Morning Chocolate, by Pietro Longhi. Hot chocolate was a fashionable drink in Venice during the 1770s and 1780s.

Luxury shops and boutiques along the Rialto Bridge.

The Doge Andrea Gritti, reigned 1523–1538, portrait by Titian.

Carlo Goldoni, the most notable name in Italian theatre.

thumb|The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola, Canaletto, circa 1738, J. Paul Getty Museum.

thumb|Francesco Guardi, The Grand Canal, circa 1760 (Art Institute of Chicago)

thumb|Morning Impression along a Canal in Venice, Veneto, Italy by Rafail Levitsky (1896)

thumb|View from the Bridge of Sighs (2017)

The whole comune (red) in the Metropolitan City of Venice

Palazzo Corner is the seat of the Metropolitan City of Venice

Palazzo Ferro Fini is the seat of the Regional Council of Veneto

Iconic Della Salute by UK based Artist Raouf Oderuth

Venice (Venezia ; Venesia or Venexia ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

Together with the cities of Padua and Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million.

Today, Venice is a major fashion and shopping centre; not as important as Milan, Florence, and Rome, but on a par with Verona, Turin, Vicenza, Naples, and Genoa.

Republic of Venice

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Sovereign state and maritime republic in parts of present-day Italy (mainly northeastern Italy) which existed for 1100 years from 697 AD until 1797 AD. Centered on the lagoon communities of the prosperous city of Venice, it incorporated numerous overseas possessions in modern Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Greece, Albania and Cyprus.

The Doge of Venice, illustrated in the manuscript Théâtre de tous les peuples et nations de la terre avec leurs habits et ornemens divers, tant anciens que modernes, diligemment depeints au naturel. Painted by Lucas d'Heere in the 2nd half of the 16th century. Preserved by the Ghent University Library.

Map of the Venetian Republic, circa 1000

Procession in St Mark's Square by Gentile Bellini in 1496

Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice during the War of the League of Cambrai.

The Venetian fort of Palamidi in Nafplion, Greece, one of many forts that secured Venetian trade routes in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Greater coat of arms of the Republic, with its various possessions and claims, in the aftermath of the Morean War

Drawing of the Doge's Palace, late 14th century

The governmental structure of the Venetian Republic

The hearing given by the Doge in the Sala del Collegio in Doge's Palace by Francesco Guardi, 1775–80

Voyage of Marco Polo into the Far East during the Pax Mongolica

The Piraeus Lion in Venice, in front of the Venetian Arsenal

Relief of the Venetian Lion on the Landward Gate in Zara (Zadar), capital of the Venetian Dalmatia

Relief of the Venetian Lion in Parenzo (Poreč)

Relief of the Venetian Lion in Cattaro (Kotor)

Relief of the Venetian Lion in Candia (Heraklion)

Relief of the Venetian Lion in Frangokastello, Crete

Venetian blazon with the Lion of Saint Mark, as frequently found on the New Fortress walls, Corfu.

The sack of Constantinople in 1204 on a mosaic in the San Giovanni Evangelista church in Ravenna, 1213

The Republic of Venice fought the War of the Castle of Love against Padua and Treviso in 1215.

In the early 15th century, the republic began to expand onto the Terraferma. Thus, Vicenza, Belluno, and Feltre were acquired in 1404, and Padua, Verona, and Este in 1405.

The pope wanted Romagna; Emperor Maximilian I: Friuli and Veneto; Spain: the Apulian ports; the king of France: Cremona; the king of Hungary: Dalmatia, and each one some of another's part.

Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)

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Kingdom in Northern Italy (formerly the Italian Republic) in personal union with France under Napoleon I.

The Kingdom of Italy in 1807, with Istria and Dalmatia, shown in yellow

The Kingdom of Italy in 1811, shown in pink

40 lire coin of the<BR>Regno d'Italia (1808)

5 lire coin of the<BR>Regno d'Italia (1812)

The Kingdom of Italy in 1812, when it was extended from Bolzano to central Adriatic Italy (Marche), losing at the same time Istria and Dalmatia

The murder of finance minister Prina in Milan marked the effective end of the kingdom.

Eugène de Beauharnais Viceroy of Italy 1805–1814

Augusto Caffarelli Minister of War 1806–1810

Achille Fontanelli Minister of War 1811–1813

Ferdinando Marescalchi Minister of Foreign Affairs 1805–1814

Giuseppe Luosi Minister of Justice 1805–1814

Troop uniforms of the Kingdom of Italy, 1805–14

It covered Savoy and the modern provinces of Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trentino, South Tyrol, and Marche.

Department of Bacchiglinoe (capital Vicenza)

Department of Brenta (capital Padua)

Lombard possessions in Italy: the Lombard Kingdom (Neustria, Austria and Tuscia) and the Lombard Duchies of Spoleto and Benevento

Lombards

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The Lombards or Langobards (Langobardi) were a Germanic people who ruled most of the Italian Peninsula from 568 to 774.

Distribution of Langobardic burial fields at the Lower Elbe Lands (according to W. Wegewitz)

Lombard grave goods (6th-7th century), Milan, Lombardy

Plutei of Theodota, mid 8th century, Civic Museums of Pavia.

The Frankish Merovingian King Chlothar II in combat with the Lombards

King Liutprand (712-744) "was a zealous Catholic, generous and a great founder of monasteries"

Lombard Duchy of Benevento in the eighth century

Italy around the turn of the millennium, showing the Lombard states in the south on the eve of the arrival of the Normans.

The West-Germanic languages around the sixth century CE

The runic inscription from the Pforzen buckle may be the earliest written example of Lombardic language

Lombard warrior, bronze statue, 8th century, Pavia Civic Museums.

The Rule of Saint Benedict in Beneventan (i.e. Lombard) script

Lombard shield boss<BR>northern Italy, 7th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A glass drinking horn from Castel Trosino

8th-century Lombard sculpture depicting female martyrs, based on a Byzantine model. Tempietto Longobardo, Cividale del Friuli

Soon Vicenza, Verona and Brescia fell into Germanic hands.

Agilulf successfully fought the rebel dukes of northern Italy, conquering Padua in 601, Cremona and Mantua in 603, and forcing the Exarch of Ravenna to pay tribute.

He extended his dominions, conquering Liguria in 643 and the remaining part of the Byzantine territories of inner Veneto, including the Roman city of Opitergium (Oderzo).

Bacchiglione

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Route of the Rivers Bacchiglione, Brenta, and Muson.

The Bacchiglione (Medoacus Minor, "Little Medoacus") is a river that flows in Veneto, northern Italy.

It flows through and past a number of cities, including Vicenza and Padua.

Groups within the Italian peninsula in the Iron Age. Veneti are in brown.

Adriatic Veneti

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The Veneti (also Heneti) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto.

It included cities of the modern Veneto such as Este, Padua, Vicenza, Asolo, Oderzo, Montebelluna, Vittorio Veneto, Cadore, as well as other areas around the Po Delta.

Portrait of Palladio by Alessandro Maganza

Andrea Palladio

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Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.

One of the first works by Palladio, Villa Godi (begun 1537)

Hall of the Muses of the Villa Godi (1537–1542)

Palazzo Thiene (1542–1558), (begun by Giulio Romano, revised and completed by Palladio)

Ground floor and entrance stairway of the Basilica Palladiana

Upper level loggia of the Basilica Palladiana

The front page of I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) (1642 edition)

Villa Cornaro (begun 1553) combined rustic living and an imposing space for formal entertaining

Detail of the Hall of Olympus, with frescoes by Paolo Veronese

Palladio's plan of the Villa in I quattro libri dell'architettura, 1570

North facade of Villa Foscari, facing the Brenta Canal

Interior decoration of grotesques on salon ceiling of Villa Foscari

South facade of Villa Foscari, with the large windows that illuminate the main salon

Nave of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1565)

Interior of Il Redentore Church in Venice (1576)

Section of the Tempietto Barbaro, drawn by Scamozzi (1783)

Stage with scenery designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, who completed the theatre after the death of Palladio

Stage and seating of his last work, the Teatro Olimpico (1584)

House of the Director of the Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1775)

La Rotonde customs barrier, Parc Monceau, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Palladian garden structure at Steinhöfel by David Gilly (1798)

The Queen's House, Greenwich by Inigo Jones (1616–1635)

Chiswick House by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and William Kent (completed 1729)

Wilton House south front by Inigo Jones (1650)

Palladio Bridge at Wilton House (1736–37)

Stourhead House by Colen Campbell (1721–24), inspired by Villa Capra

Harvard Hall at Harvard University by Thomas Dawes (1766)

Monticello, residence of Thomas Jefferson (1772)

Winning design for the first United States Capitol by Thomas Thornton (1793)

Clarity and harmony. Villa Badoer (1556–1563), an early use by Palladio of the elements of a Roman temple

The Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, (begun 1546) with arched Palladian window and round oculi to the loggia.

A variation of the Palladian or Venetian window, with round oculi, at Villa Pojana (1548–49)

Late Palladio style, Mannerist decoration on the facade of the Palazzo del Capitanio (1565–1572)

Villa Capra "La Rotonda" outside Vicenza

The city of Vicenza, with its 23 buildings designed by Palladio, and 24 Palladian villas of the Veneto are listed by UNESCO as part of a World Heritage Site named City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.

Palladio was born on 30 November 1508 in Padua and was given the name Andrea di Pietro della Gondola.

Villa Barbaro (begun 1557) at Maser was an imposing suburban villa, built for the brothers Marcantonio and Daniele Barbaro, who were respectively occupied with politics and religious affairs in the Veneto, or Venice region.