Palazzo Barbarano Yes Porto - a palace in Vicenza, designed in 1569, the year and built a few years later by the architect Andrea Palladio. Since 1994, the year listed as a World Cultural Heritage Site "Palladian villas of Veneto." Today, the Palazzo houses the Museum of Andrea Palladio and the International Center for the Study of Architecture of the great native of Vicenza.

Luxurious Palazzo, built between 1570 m and 1575 m over the years for the local nobleman Montano Barbarano, - it is the only large palace in Vicenza, entirely built by Palladio. In his "History of Vicenza" in 1591, the year Jacopo Marzaro describes Montano Barbarano as a "man of arts and outstanding musician", and in those years the palace inventory featured a variety of flutes, which confirms his words.

Today in London is kept for at least three author's projects Palazzo Barbarano Yes Porto, which are very different from each other and different from what looks like a modern palace. It is known that Barbarano asked Palladio to take into account the different structures belonging to the family and has stood on the site of the proposed construction. Moreover, after completion of the project of the palace, Barbarano bought another house adjacent to his property, which led to the asymmetric arrangement of the main portal.

I must say that during the construction of the Palace of Palladio had to solve two problems: first - how to support the floor of the main hall on the "piano nobile", and the second - how to restore the symmetry of the interior impaired sloping walls of old houses. Based on the model of the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome, Palladio divided the interior into three wings, placing in the center of four Ionic columns. So he decided the first problem. Then the columns were connected to the walls of buildings with the help of vertical fragments architraves - since found a solution to the second problem. In addition, it is possible to create a series of so-called "Palladian windows."

For the decoration of his palace Barbarano hired major painters of the time - Giovanni Battista Dzelotti, Anselmo Kaner and Andrea Vicentino. Stucco was performed by Lorenzo Rubini and his son Agostino. In the end, it turned out magnificent Palazzo that can compete with residences Tiene, Porto, and Valmarana and allow its owner to declare itself as an influential member of society Vicenza.

In 1998, after 20 years of restoration, the Palazzo Barbarano da Porto was reopened to the public. And in 1999, the year it houses the Museum of Palladio.