Inside Villa Rotunda

The amazing frescoes inside the villa, before we get yelled at because we were taking pictures in prohibited areas (which is all inside the villa).

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UNESCO City of Vicenza

June 28th 2003
I’ve always been interested in UNESCO sites all around the world after visiting the Borobudur Temple in Indonesia several years back. I was thrilled to learn that one of the UNESCO sites protected in Italy, apart from Roman Forum and others, is the town of Vicenza. Vicenza is the home of Palladian architecture, which defines the classic Italian Reneissance architecture in late fourteenth ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Vicenza

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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