Palazzo Pojana

now Arrigoni Noventa

Vincenzo Pojana possessed a house in a corner between Contrà Do Rode and Corso Palladio, bought the building opposite and in 1561 asked for permission to join the two structures with an arch spanning Contrà Do Rode. Work was completed between 1561 and 1566, and an interesting solution was found to join the two buildings. The facade of the new palazzo is not symmetrical on the lower floor (this can still be seen despite the changes in the building to make room for shops): in fact, the two arches on the right were supposed to act as an entrance. The "piano nobile" has six giant Corinthian columns, five tabernacle windows, and another five square ones on the upper floor. Palladio is assumed to have designed it, on the basis of the existence of a drawing by the Maestro referring to this building and preserved in Great Britain. In Contrà San Tommaso, the 16th century section of the palazzo that Bonifacio Pojana began to build following Palladio's design (so Bortolan and Rumor claimed in 1919) and more probably Domenico Groppino's, can be seen. A historical reconstruction has it that work was interrupted with the death of the nobleman in about 1576. At the end of the following century Francesco Muttoni designed a new building, commissioned by Count Alessandro Pojana.
UNESCO Monument

Source: taken from "Vicenza, City of Palladio", Vicenza City Council, Cultural and Tourist Council Department

Address: corso Palladio, 90/94

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