Palazzo Cordellina

The lawyer Carlo Cordellina, the person who had the villa of the same name built at Montecchio Maggiore with paintings by Tiepolo, had decided to build a palazzo in the centre of Vicenza. He was already owner of a building in Contrà Piancoli, and in 1776 he bought the area where the suppressed convent of the Jesuits with its adjacent church stood. The existing buildings were demolished, and work on the new palazzo designed by Ottone Calderari was begun.
Of this grandiose project, inspired by Palladio's Palazzo Montano Barbarano, only the facade looking over Contrà Riale was completed: the courtyard, with portico and loggia also on the other three sides, was never built.
Inside there are frescoes by Paolo Guidolini and Girolamo Ciesa, in part destroyed by the 1945 bombardments.

Address: contrà Riale, 12