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The text related to the cultural heritage 'City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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This article is about the city in Italy. | WIKI |
Vicenza Vicensaxc2xa0xc2xa0(Venetian)ComuneCittxc3xa0 di VicenzaA collage of Vicenza showing: the Villa Capra "La Rotonda", the classical temple in the Parco Querini, a panorama of the city from the Monte Berico, the Piazza dei Signori and the Renaissance Basilica Palladiana. | WIKI |
Vicenza (/vxc9xaaxcbx88txcax83xc9x9bntsxc9x99/ vih-CHENT-sxc9x99, Italian:xc2xa0[vixcbx88txcax83xc9x9bntsa] (listen); Venetian: Vicensa [vixcbx88txcax83exc5x8bsa]) is a city in northeastern Italy. | WIKI |
Vicenza is a thriving and cosmopolitan city, with a rich history and culture, and many museums, art galleries, piazzas, villas, churches and elegant Renaissance palazzi. | WIKI |
Additionally, about one fifth of the country's gold and jewelry is made in Vicenza, greatly contributing to the city's economy. | WIKI |
[citation needed] In 157 BC, the city was a de facto Roman centre and was given the name of Vicetia or Vincentia, meaning "victorious". | WIKI |
The city was known for its agriculture, brickworks, marble quarry, and wool industry and had some importance as a way-station on the important road from Mediolanum (Milan) to Aquileia, near Tergeste (Trieste), but it was overshadowed by its neighbor Patavium (Padua). | WIKI |
Little survives of the Roman city, but three of the bridges across the Bacchiglione and Retrone rivers are of Roman origin, and isolated arches of a Roman aqueduct exist outside the Porta Santa Croce. | WIKI |
During the decline of the Western Roman Empire, Heruls, Vandals, Alaric and his Visigoths, as well as the Huns laid waste to the area, but the city recovered after the Ostrogoth conquest in 489 AD, before being conquered by the Byzantine Empire soon after. | WIKI |
It was also an important Lombard city and then a Frankish center. | WIKI |
In 1001, Otto III handed over the government of the city to the bishop, and its communal organization had an opportunity to develop, separating soon from the episcopal authority. | WIKI |
Three years later the Vicentines entrusted the protection of the city to Padua, so as to safeguard republican liberty; but this protectorate (custodia) quickly became dominion, and for that reason Vicenza in 1311 submitted to the Scaligeri lords of Verona, who fortified it against the Visconti of Milan. | WIKI |
The 16th century was the time of Andrea Palladio,[9] who left many outstanding examples of his art with palaces and villas in the city's territory, which before Palladio's passage, was arguably the most downtrodden and esthetically lacking city of the Veneto. | WIKI |
One of the consequences of the city's occupation was the destruction of a prized silver model of the city, the Jewel of Vicenza. | WIKI |
In 1848, however, the populace rose against Austria, more violently than in any other Italian centre apart from Milan and Brescia (the city would receive the highest award for military valour for the courage displayed by revolutionaries in this period). | WIKI |
Vicenza's area was a location of major combat in both World War I (on the Asiago plateau) and World War II (a focal center of the Italian resistance), and it was the most damaged city in Veneto by Allied bombings, including many of its monuments; the civil victims were over 2,000. | WIKI |
Huge industrial areas sprouted around the city, massive and disorganized urbanization and employment of foreign immigrants increased. | WIKI |
Today, the city has morphed from a land of emigration to a land of immigration. | WIKI |
The city is predominantly Roman Catholic, but due to immigration, it now has some Orthodox Christian, Muslim and Sikh followers. | WIKI |
Palazzo Chiericati, home of the city pinacotheca Palazzo Barbaran da Porto, home of the Museo Palladio Palazzo del Capitaniato, home of the city council Palazzo Porto Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello (incomplete) Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare (built by Vincenzo Scamozzi) Palazzo Thiene Villa Gazzotti Grimani, in the frazione Bertesina | WIKI |
The basilica commemorates two apparitions of Our Lady to Vincenza Pasini, a pious woman who lived in a village in the province, and the liberation of the city from a terrible plague. | WIKI |
In the 9th century, the city, and the church, were razed by the Hungarians; by the 10th century, the church had been re-erected by the bishop Rodolfo with the support of Emperor Otto II. | WIKI |
Santa Corona: one of the oldest and most important churches of the city, this 13th century church first endowed by the bishop of Verona, the Blessed Bartholomew of Breganze, to shelter one of the thorns from Christ's crown. | WIKI |
San Giorgio in Gogna: one of the oldest churches in the city, built before the year 1000. with a Romanesque facade. | WIKI |
After the Napoleonic abolition of the religious orders and their convents, it became in 1810 the church of San Marco, one of the oldest parishes in the city. | WIKI |
Sant'Agostino: church built upon older buildings in the 14th century, the ancient convent of Saint Augustine is located on the western outskirts of the city, giving its name to the parish and to the frazione. | WIKI |
Massive industrial areas surround the city and extend extensively in the western and eastern hinterland, with numerous steel and textile factories located in the Montecchio Maggiore, Chiampo and Sovizzo area in the west and Camisano Vicentino and Torri di Quartesolo in the east, areas characterised by a disorganised and extensive cementifaction. | WIKI |
A plate of Baccalxc3xa0 alla vicentina, a typical dish of the city | WIKI |
The work of Andrea Palladio (1508xe2x80x9380), based on a detailed study of classical Roman architecture, gives the city its unique appearance. | UNESCO |
The palazzi, or town houses, were fitted into the urban texture of the medieval city, creating picturesque ensembles and continuous street facades in which the Veneto Gothic style combines with Palladio's articulated classicism. | UNESCO |
The 21st-century industrial development resulted in a strong transformation of the areas surrounding the city, affecting the original relationships between city and countryside. | UNESCO |
The urban fabric of the city has undergone remarkably little change, and still retains the historic townscape known from early engravings. | UNESCO |