Vicenza, one of Europe's most affluent cities, is best known for its architecture; it's home to several buildings designed by Palladio, one of the more famous classical architects. Christopher can give more details if you're curious, but for your sake and mine, I'll just show you a picture of the most famous of Palladio's designs -- Villa Rotunda.
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Apparently Palladio is such a big deal to them that they decided to host a huge party to celebrate what would be Palladio's 500th birthday. The soiree was held in a nearby town and all the who's who of architecture were there, including the ND School of Architecture grad students. Their trip was timed to coincide with the anniversary bash, and Christopher enjoyed a couple hours of schmoozing and good scotch in honor of Palladio, the pride and joy of Italian architecture.
In the meantime, I enjoyed window shopping on the streets of one of Italy's big retail cities with the other wives, licking gelato and *almost* succumbing to a coat in Zara. We took turns labeling suits, coats, boots and other goodies as "maybe someday" and "not in a million years" and pretending we weren't actually tempted by all the high priced threads.
After two nights in Vicenza, we were on our way to Venice...
