Palazzo Thiene - Palace of 15-16 centuries in Vicenza, built for Marcantonio and Adriano Thiene. Perhaps the creators of the project of the palace in 1542, the year was Giulio Romano, but already at the stage of construction, in 1544, the year it processed Andrea Palladio. In 1994 the building was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Today it houses the headquarters of the bank, and sometimes hosts exhibitions and cultural events.

Construction of the original building in the Gothic style Lodovico Thiene in 1490, the year commissioned the architect Lorenzo da Bologna. Its eastern facade facing towards the district Contra ports, was made of brick, and above the portal, decorated with a triple window in pink marble, worked Tommaso da Lugano. In 1542, the year Thiene brothers decided to reconstruct the family palace of the 15th century and turn it into a huge residence of 54 to 62 meters. According to their idea, the facade of the building had to be turned into the main street of Vicenza - current Corso Palladio.

Rich, powerful and sophisticated Marcantonio and Adriano Thiene were members of an aristocratic Italian society, whose members can easily move between the royal courts of Europe. That's why they needed the appropriate residence that reflects their status and could take the most distinguished guests. Most likely, the project Palazzo experienced architect Giulio Romano (from 1533, the year he was in Mantua yard Gonzaga, which Tiene were in close relations), and the young Palladio was responsible for its implementation. After the death of the novel in 1546, the year of Palladio took over the building.

Architectural elements of the Palazzo Thiene, which was attributed to Romano, and which is clearly alien to the style of Palladio, easily recognizable, for example, Four-atrium is very similar to the atrium of the Palazzo Te, despite the fact that Palladio changed his vaults. Romano also belong to the authorship of windows and facades of the ground floor facing the street and the courtyard, while Palladian introduced traits in their capitals and entablature of the upper floors.

Construction works, as mentioned above, it began in 1542, the year, but it went very slowly on the outer facade engraved in 1556, and on the front patio - 1558. In 1552, the year in France Adriano Thiene died, and the next time Marcantonio Thiene son, Julio, became Marquis Scandiano, family interests gradually shifted to Ferrara. As a result, only a small part of an ambitious project of the Palazzo Thiene was implemented. Probably neither Venetian nor other Vicentina aristocratic families could not afford the maintenance of such a personal kingdom in the heart of the city.