Piazza dei Signori Site Features

The Basilica's loggia

Best read from the far side of the square, where the full run of arches is visible at once.

The two columns

The winged lion of St Mark and Christ the Redeemer, marking Vicenza's four centuries as a Venetian city.

The Torre Bissara

The medieval bell tower rising through the Basilica's corner, older than everything around it and left in place when Palladio built round it.

The Palazzo del Capitaniato

Three bays of an unfinished facade, and the clearest evidence anywhere of how far Palladio's style travelled within his own lifetime.