Loggia del Capitaniato
In front of the Basilica with which it should have constituted a symmetric unity, the Loggia del Capitaniato marks the last creative period of Palladio. Probably unfinished, it remains a stately building, with its gigantic columns, showing us, together with the Basilica, different phases in the production of Palladio.

So beautiful that is almost disturbing. The atmosphere of this magic place designed by Andrea Palladio is difficult to be told by words. Built to host the plays od the Accademia Olimpica, of which Palladio his self was a founder, the theater was opened to the public in 1584 with the representation of Oedipus Rex by Sofocles.

On one side of corso Palladio, Vicenza main street, one of most innovative works of the great architect: Palazzo Chiericati. Even though superimposed loggias were not unusual in the architecture of the past, the use to which Palladio puts them on the façade of the Palazzo Chiericati is absolutely unheralded in terms of power and expressive awareness. Nowadays Palazzo Chiericati host Vicenza CIty Museum.