🎭 Teatro Olimpico
Renaissance theater in Vicenza, part of UNESCO World Heritage Site
📌 Fast Facts
- Oldest covered theater still in use, completed 1585
- Designed by Andrea Palladio; finished posthumously by Vincenzo Scamozzi
- Part of UNESCO World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto" (inscribed 1994)
- Located in Vicenza, northeastern Italy (45.55°N, 11.55°E)
The Teatro Olimpico is a Renaissance theater in Vicenza commissioned by the Olympic Academy in 1580 as a ...