Palladian Villas of the Veneto

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The City centre of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto are a cluster of works by Andrea Palladio and his disciples which were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994 and expanded two years later.

Many of the families for whom Palladio designed villas also owned a town palazzo. The term villa was always used to describe the country house distinguishing them from the family Palazzo which was usually in town. In most cases the family coupled their surname with the Palazzo or Villa title, hence confusingly there is both a Villa and a Palazzo Chiericati, just as their is a Palazzo Foscari in Venice and a Villa Foscari in the [1] in the Veneto.

Besides from the historic centre of Vicenza, the site includes the following villas:

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