Palazzo Schio - an aristocratic palace of the 16th century in Vicenza, on whose facade in 1560, the year he worked Andrea Palladio. The great architect set to design the facade at the request of Bernardo Schio, who decided to build a family residence near the Ponte Pusterla. But as in the same period of Palladio was working on a series of projects in Venice, which required his personal presence in the capital of the Venetian Republic, it participated in construction of the Palazzo Schio became so insignificant that hired him foreman of masons was forced to suspend construction until further clear guidance. After the death of Bernardo Schio his widow did not show interest in the completion of work on the Palazzo, and it was completed only at the initiative of Brother Bernardo, Fabrizio, in 1574-75-m respectively.

Facing the street facade relatively narrow. Palladio decided to share his "piano nobile" of three arches of the same width with four half-columns with Corinthian capitals. The space between the columns is occupied by three windows with overhanging balconies, each of which is topped by a triangular pediment strongly protruding. Upper floor formerly occupied by the other three windows, which were to cover the warehouse and which were bricked up in 1825, the year.

The facade of the Palazzo Schio also animates the play of light and shadow created by the use of multiple layers of depth in the arrangement of columns, moldings and balconies windows and gables.