Palazzo Barbaran Da Porto Palace in Vicenza, designed in 1569, the year and built a few years later by the architect Andrea Palladio. Since 1994, the year inscribed in the UNESCO world Cultural heritage of UNESCO "the Palladian villas of the Veneto". Today the Palazzo houses the Museum of Andrea Palladio international centre for architectural studies of the great native of Vicenza.

The luxury Palazzo, built between 1570 and 1575 m years for local nobleman Montano Barbarano, is the only large Palace in Vicenza, entirely built by Palladio. In his "History of Vicenza" 1591-year Jacopo Marzari describes Montano Barbarano as "a man of the arts and an outstanding musician" in the Palace inventory of those years featured a variety of flutes, confirming his words.

Today in London is kept at least three original project Palazzo Barbaran Da Porto, which vary among themselves and differ from the look of a modern Palace. It is known that Barbarano asked Palladio to take into account the various buildings owned by the family and stood on the site of proposed construction. Moreover, after the completion of the project, Barbarano bought another house adjacent to his property that was the cause of the asymmetric location of the main portal.

I must say that Palladio in the construction of the Palace had to solve two problems: first, how to support the floor of the main hall on the piano Nobile, and the second is how to restore the symmetry of the interior violated sloping walls of old houses. Based on the model of the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome, Palladio divided the interior into three wings, placing in the center of four ionic columns. So he decided the first issue. Then the columns were connected with the walls of buildings using snippets of vertical trim – so had found a solution to the second problem. In addition, it is possible to create several so-called "Palladian Windows".

For the decoration of his Palace Barbarano hired the biggest artists of the time, Giovanni Battista, Zelotti, Anselmo of Kanner and Andrea Vicentino. Stucco work was executed Lorenzo Rubini and his son Agostino. In the end, I got the Grand Palazzo, able to compete with residences Thiene, Porto and Valmarana at Mira and allowed his master to declare itself as an influential member of the society of Vicenza.

In 1998, the year after a 20-year restoration, the Palazzo Barbaran da Porto was reopened to the public. And in 1999-m to year it has housed the Museum of Palladio.