The Vicenza è Consortium and Vicenza Film Commission present...
Vicenza is... a great set!
Splendid landscapes, incomparable artistic scenery, a great variety of locations: mountains, city, countryside, in one great set!

The Consortium for the Tourism Promotion Vicenza è presents...
Reflections of a Mallard
I fly over a place... which sweetens my migration... along my journey south.
Palaces as old as our own itineraries... motionless plains... and the magic nests of men.
There are rivers which guide us... and forts where archers no longer shoot...along my journey south.
Sometimes parfumes borne by the wind... whistling between merlons and towers... reach us even up here.
Along my southbound path... are ponds for resting... and for starting off again... upwards, across valleys and hills... as far as the vast highlands.
When I glide gently... cradled by updraughts... I wonder what the world is like... seen from below... the houses, towns, cities... the roofs, towers and belfries... and all those people... wuth their thousands of paths.
This is what I think of... on my own way back... when the breezes of spring... correct my route... along the journey north.
This is what I think of... and my heart beats strong... with the miles covered... and the sudden realization... that I'm flying again... over Vicenza.

A wonderful fly of emotions over the province of Vicenza.

The Consortium for the Tourism Promotion Vicenza è presents...
Vicenza, heart of Veneto region
Cradle of art and culture, fascinates every year more than one million and twenty-one people...
... the 21 we show you in this video, shooted in some of the more fascinating places of the province of Vicenza

A funny video, with likeable tourists as actors, entirely shooted in the heart of the Veneto region.

<Devised from Prof. Giuseppe Barbieri on behalf of the Vicenzaè Consortium, it synthetizes in 16 minutes the importance of great master Messer Andrea Palladium who, only example to the world, has given its name to an architectonic style: THE PALLADIANISM

AUTHOR'S NOTES
It is not easy to show in few minutes a city, much more if it is that in which one has been born and to which has dedicated many years of study, with the consequence to multiply the sensitive fragments, the hidden stories, the implicits. I have tried to put out my experience matured when I was young, about twenty years ago, when I had the occasion to accompaign in Vicenza some eminent figures of the culture of our time, Jean Starobinski and Jorge Amado, Tzvetan Todorov and René Thom, and many others. I had to show at least an idea of the city, in little more than two hours, and before a convention, adopt a point of view, have clear some thesis. The results were amazing, seeing to grow in those eyes the importance of a city until then considered, not completely to twisted, provincial.
Also this time I have tried to play on the points of view (first part of the video is nearly all from Berico Mount), of having clear a thesis (also thanks to Palladio, Vicenza summarizes dearly the great outcomes ot theItalian architecture between XV and XIX century).
About the contents I have kept on the testimonies of the travellers of the slid centuries: partially because they have watched the city with eyes more attention of the tourists of today, partially because these last ones can try to acknowledge in them, to live again the experiences of Inigo Jones and Wolfgang Goethe. The structure of the video appears rather quick: to give more information and interpretations than simple suggestions. But this drift also from the fact that Vicenza, for a long time, does not know to communicate itself with too much effectiveness, neither to the compatriots, neither to the foreigns. The first spectators have not complaint for this.

Prof. Giuseppe Barbieri
Regular of modern art history
Ca' Foscari University, Venice