If you would like to see details about our journey, check out our itinerary and our bike route.
Today was a rest and immerse ourselves in architecture day.
We started with breakfast in the apartment. We got to the tourist office, a 10-minute walk away, about 9:45, and bought tickets to enter four Palladio sites in the city.
First was the Teatro Olimpico, next to the tourist office. It was amazing.
Second was the Palazzo Chiericati Museo Civico. Also amazing.
Third was the of Chiesa di Santa Maria Nova. Amazing, beautiful, peaceful.
Then we walked by a deli, everything in the window looked delicious, we went in and bought lunch and dinner, we took the bag of food to Piazza Matteotti in front of the civic museum and ate our lunch in the shade.
It was around 13:00 by then, and the sun was so hot that we went back to the apartment and read and slept.
For dinner, we cooked up the ravioli with pesto sauce for me and pomodoro sauce for Ken, from the deli.
Went out for a stroll after dinner. It was cooler. We ran into the same little girl who had been looking for bread last night. Tonight she was with just her mother, and they were on their way to buy supplies for the little girl's first day at big-girl school. She looked like she was about three. Her mother is from Bratislava, her dad is from Chicago and works on the military base outside of town.
We continued our walk until Ken found gelato and cake. I held out for a glass of wine in our apartment after the walk.
Again, I'm not going to caption all the photos from our day.
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| The set of the Teatro Olimpico was completed in 1585, and it has been in place ever since, except for a brief period when it was stored in the basement during WWII. It is built of wood and painted. It is an astonishing work of perspective, appearing to stretch for blocks in what is actually about 60 feet. During performances, dwarves strolled at the far end of the street, and the light fixtures on the buildings used smaller and smaller wicks and glass globes, to enhance the appearance of distance. |
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| Learning about this classic set helped me to understand a little how the designers of theater sets now think. I have always been intrigued by the techniques that set designers use in creating a theater experience. I now understand just a little bit that they study the work of others, including historical works, and draw on ideas from everywhere as they interpret a theater piece. |
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| Really good pastry and gelato shops are a little harder to find, but well worth the search. |
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| The civic museum was one of the most effectively curated collections I have seen. Visitors were guided through rooms and floors that connected works presented in chronological order, carefully signed with brief descriptions that tied the pieces together. When I have time, I will return to this page and add some captions that share the insight gleaned from the notes provided by the curators. |
