Piazza Duomo

Piazza Duomo opens out on the right-hand side of the Cathedral. It has a regular square shape, with in the middle a statue of Vittorio Emanuele II, executed by Augusto Benvenuti in 1880.
Standing with your back to the side of the cathedral, on the right there is the Bishop's or Episcopal Palace, a place with a thousand-year history which as it stands today has been almost entirely rebuilt after the bombardments of 1945. The interior court of the Palace houses the Loggia Zeno.
Opposite, underground, there is a Roman cryptoporticus and to the left the little Palazzo Roma, this also rebuilt after the war, and further on the facade of the Oratorio del Gonfalone.
Still on the eastern flank of the piazza, the Palazzo del Casino Sociale, originally the ancient Ospedale di Sant'Antonio, where the 18th and 19th century Vicenza nobility organised concerts and merrymaking.