Palazzo Porto-Colleoni

Palazzo Porto-Colleoni, on the left-hand side of the Palazzo Iseppo da Porto by Palladio, dates back to about 1460. It has only two floors and originally had a frescoed facade. During restoration work in the 1930s, all traces of the frescoes were removed and the red brickwork was felt to create too much of a contrast with the marble of the four-arched windows and portal with its coat-of-arms of the Porto family. Inside the entrance there opens out one of the few gardens in Vicenza's historic centre, overlooked by an architraved loggia. Here a semicircular wooden classical theatre was set up in 1539, designed by Sebastiano Serlio and which served as a model for Palladio when he came to designing the Teatro Olimpico.

Address: contrà Porti, 19

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