Palazzo Valmarana

now Braga Rosa

The Palazzo Valmarana was built by Andrea Palladio on a site where there were already buildings belonging to the same family. However, the building is incomplete: the courtyard, garden and stables were never built. Gianantonio Golin has rightly pointed out that "if the palazzo of the Valmaranas and that of M.A. Thiene had been completed according to their original design, they would have been a complex and splendid monumental group in the city texture of Vicenza, and together with the Palazzo Barbaran-da Porto would have been three classic examples of different monuments springing from the mind of the Maestro, in a wonderful integration with the Romanesque and Gothic contexts of the ancient city". However, it should be borne in mind that Palladio's work must be read with an eye to the relationship between theoretical architectural and practical solutions. The design described in "Four Books..." does not correspond completely to the building he had erected. The building is smaller compared to the design, and the facade in adapting to the street does not respect the perpendicular relation with the back walls. Furthermore, if the palazzo had been completed, the stables would have overlapped with part of the group designed for Count Montano Barbaran. So what is given in the Treatise is a theoretical elaboration.
UNESCO Monument

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

Address: corso Fogazzaro, 16

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