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W ELCOME TO B ASSANO DEL G RAPPA Province of Vicenza Tourist Information Office T OWN OF F INE A RTS W ELCOME TO B ASSANO DEL G RAPPA HISTORIC CENTRE The inhabitants of Bassano have always been 23 extremely attached to their land. This fact is 22 TO PA L 9 O S V A VIA S. A P manifest in their everyday activities, which O L NNA L IT O A C I D V E L A 17 M have always had the purpose of bringing L A R R VI O E A T G T C A N S O P A 12 L U N 1 O OL prosperity and grandeur to their town. The P I M RTIR V A B A DEI M A A E I VI L R VIA E V architectonical context of Bassano has P. T TA LIO I AG ZAINE R R E ER I A T B VIALE VENEZIA Z R 18 P.Z A evolved over the centuries from this basic DI R E NI A B A 21 I P I NA SS V A P M RAM precept with its ensuing diversity of styles 11 7 FO D V. 5 E LL 25 EN V DE I 3 IA E dating from the medieval era through to N V I 24 L R A I B V A 20 L modern times. Jacopo Dal Ponte, Palladio, A 6 15 C S 10 P A I Marinali, Canova, Dall’Acqua are just some of V 14 8 the famous artists who have left their imprint 16 4 PIAZZALE on the town. TRENTO The streets of the historic centre are proof of VIA L E D IA Z I IN D 2 13 N the town’s firmly entrenched commercial and O M E R IA V HI handicraft tradition, which developed as a CC RO A B LIT consequence of its fortuitous geographical SA PIAZZALE CADORNA position. You will enjoy stopping at the shop P 19 windows to admire the famous ceramics, the ASIAGO splendid creations of the blooming jewellery BASSANO DEL GRAPPA PIOVENE ROCCHETTE trade, the reproductions of precious BELLUNO P MAROSTICA SCHIO THIENE Remondini prints, and the remarkable antique RECOARO BASSANO AUT OSTRA style reproduction furniture. VALDAGNO DA TREVISO VICENZA TRISSINO . 11 VICENZA MONTECCHIO S.S MAGGIORE A4 VERONA PADOVA VENEZIA OSTRADA AUT VENEZIA VERONA LONIGO PADOVA ROVIGO MILANO IERA BERICA IERA STRADA RIV VENETO REGION PROVINCE OF VICENZA 1 Viale dei Martiri 7 Palazzo Pretorio The town is encircled by rolling hills and boasts a mild climate for the North of Italy which even favours the plantation of olive 2 Giardini Parolini 8 Palazzo Sturm groves. Bassano is also famous for its high and Museo della quality agricultural products, in particular the Ceramica white asparagus, and the distillation of grappa. Respect for the natural environment has been a major influence in the 3 Loggia 9 Prato Santa development of this well-balanced, human- dei podestà Caterina and and Town Hall “Ragazzi del ’99” scaled town. Park INFORMATION Province of Vicenza - IAT 4 Museo Civico 10 Piazzotto (Tourist Information Office): former Convento Monte Vecchio di San Francesco and Monte di Largo Corona d’Italia, 35 Pietà Tel. +39 0424.524351 - +39 0424.525065 - Fax +39 0424.525301 PROBASSANO (local events): Piazzetta Guadagnin, 6 int. 1 - Tel. +39 0424.227580 - Fax +39 0424.505162 5 Museo 11 Ponte Vecchio degli Alpini ASSOCIATION PROMO BASSANO PIÙ: Largo Corona d’Italia, 35 - Tel. +39 0424.523169 BASSANO TOWN COUNCIL (Culture and Tourism Office): Via Vendramini, 35 - Tel. +39 0424.217810 - +39 0424.217807 - Fax +39 0424.217818 6 Palazzo Bonaguro 12 Porta delle Grazie T OWN OF F INE A RTS W ELCOME TO B ASSANO DEL G RAPPA 13 Porta Dieda 1 2 3 Viale dei Martiri Giardini Parolini Loggia dei podestà and Town Hall 14 Chiesa di The visitor driving along the Described in a nineteenth century Podestà is the name given during the San Donato Valsugana Highway from Trento to guide to the town as a “place of later Middle Ages to a high official Bassano on a warm summer’s pleasure”, it is the only botanic in many Italian cities. The relative evening will enjoy one of the most garden in the region outside the loggia dates from the 15th century beautiful views of the town. The sphere of the universities. A and the building that is now the boulevard, which stretches from the pleasant, lush oasis situated in the Town Hall was built above and 15 Chiesa di upper castle to the Porta delle historic centre of Bassano, designed behind it. Construction began in San Francesco Grazie, is enfolded in a magical by Alberto Parolini, a local nobleman 1405, and a few years later the golden atmosphere. Once the who was particularly active in the decision was made to install a dial northern part of the boulevard was cultural life of the town at the clock made by Mastro Corrado da protected by medieval walls, which beginning of the 19th century. Feltre, at a cost of 46 gold ducats. 16 Chiesa di unfortunately were pulled down in Parolini was greatly influenced by The clock, which was inaugurated on San Giovanni 1886 in order to grant the wealthy Giambattista Brocchi, but above all 2 February 1430, is considered Battista families, whose magnificent by his trip to London which, at the symbolic of the secular passage of residences had turned this boulevard time, was the hub of naturalistic time in the civitas. The current clock 17 Duomo di Santa Maria in Colle 18 Teatro Astra 19 Tempio Ossario into one of the most prestigious activity, and from which originated mechanism was made by Bartolomeo areas in the city, a more expansive the trend for landscape gardens. In Ferracina in 1747, the engineer after panorama. This long, tree-lined 1829, Parolini boasted a cultivation whom one of the most interesting boulevard was formerly called of “3000 species of different plants”; streets in the town, near the bridge, 20 Torre Civica Contrada delle Grazie, and then it in the last catalogue compiled by his was named. The inside walls are was named Viale XX Settembre, and daughter, Antonietta, 3200 different frescoed with the 120 coat-of-arms is today known as Viale dei Martiri, species were enumerated. In 1929, of the earliest podestà of the Veneto Martyr Boulevard. The name stems the gardens were handed over to the region. A fire in 1682 destroyed from the 31 partisans who were Bassano Town Council and even several precious frescoes by Jacopo hung in Bassano, some of them from though its dimensions were reduced Dal Ponte, fortunately, however, a 21 Chiesa della the trees that still overlook the during the fifties when a part of it fresco depicting St Christopher, Santa Trinità Brenta Valley, on 26 September 1944. was used for the construction of patron saint of wayfarers, by On 9 October 1946, the Prime various buildings, the council has Francesco Bassano Il Vecchio, Minister of the newly formed Italian always considered it one of the Jacopo’s father, still adorns the Republic, Alcide De Gasperi, awarded town’s major cultural locations. southern wall. According to local the town of Bassano a gold medal for Some of the most interesting species tradition, if a pilgrim, passing by, 22 Convento di military valour and each year the city in the garden include: the popular glanced at the saint, he would be San Sebastiano commemorates the mopping up and Cedar of Lebanon, the Pinus Parolinii, protected throughout the day. massacre which took place on Mount named after Parolini who discovered Grappa on 20-23 September 1944. the species in 1819 in Asia Minor, the Platanus Orientalis which reaches a height of roughly 30 23 Monastery of Campese metres, the Taxus Baccata also called the “tree of death”, and the Cercis Siliquastrum, which according to popular tradition is the type of tree from which Judas Iscariot hanged 24 Grapperia himself, otherwise known as Judas’ Nardini tree. 25 Poli Grappa Museum T OWN OF F INE A RTS W ELCOME TO B ASSANO DEL G RAPPA 4 5 6 7 Museo Civico, former Museo degli Palazzo Palazzo Convento di San Francesco Alpini Bonaguro Pretorio The civic museum of Bassano, is The Italian Alpine Troops museum was The palace is located in Borgo Via Matteotti, which extends from one of the oldest museums in the established in 1948 upon the wave of Angarano, which is in the western the castle to the Town Hall, was Veneto region. It was erected in enthusiasm stirred up by the part of the town. The name of this once the main thoroughfare called 1828 from the bequest of the inauguration of the reconstructed suburb originates from the ancient Contrada del Palazzo. From 1315 local naturalist, Giambattista Ponte degli Alpini and the first “fundus Ancharianus”, which up until onwards the praetorian palace was Brocchi. It comprises an art national parade of the Penne Nere, 1812, was a separate municipality the headquarters of the podestà and gallery housing the most after the Second World War connected to nearby Bassano by the later became the headquarters of the extensive collection of paintings (3 October 1948). The building, which Ponte Vecchio. Construction on the Town Council. The palace is still by Jacopo Dal Ponte and various is the property of the Montegrappa palace began during the 16th century, surrounded by a wall section. Access members of his family, as well as Section of the Italian Alpine Troops it was subsequently renovated to the palace is through a white paintings by other famous artists association, stands on the right bank towards the middle of the 17th century stone ashlar archway, which features such as Guariento and of the Brenta river, next to the Ponte as can be seen from the balconies on in its tympanum the lion of St Mark Magnasco; the Council’s Vecchio, and has become the the façade, the shape of the interior resting a paw on the open book of Historical Archives; the library headquarters of the association, as arcs and the openings in the upper peace, the symbol of Bassano’s which contains a collection of well as a museum and tavern open to section.