Vigevano I d e a l T o w n
Vigevano, just 35 km away from Milan, is a jewel, rich of gorgeous but little-known renaissance architecture and art.
Vigevano, just 35 km away from Milan, is a jewel, rich of gorgeous but little-known renaissance architecture and art.
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<strong>Vigevano</strong> V E R S O<br />
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Piazza Ducale<br />
Built between 1492 and 1494 at the wishes of Ludovico<br />
il Moro, Piazza Ducale was one of the first models of a<br />
Renaissance square and is one of the best examples of<br />
XV century Lombard architecture. Donato Bramante was<br />
undoubtedly present among those architects involved in<br />
the work at the Milan nobles’ court.<br />
The Piazza was built to add lustre to the town as the<br />
preferred residence of the Duke. The antechamber<br />
to the entrance of the imposing Visconti-Sforza castle,<br />
it originally had a flight of stone steps permitting the<br />
triumphal entrance of the Dukes to the Castle residence.<br />
The pulsing hub of the town, it is surrounded by<br />
porticoes and arcades supported by 84 columns with<br />
capitals in different styles, and owes its present form to<br />
the Bishop Architect Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz who<br />
built the baroque facade of the Cathedral in 1680.
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