The famous ones include:* "Villa Almerico Capra" (also known as "La Rotonda"), located just outside the downtown area;* "Basilica Palladiana", centrally located in Vicenza's Piazza dei Signori, of which Palladio himself said that it might stand comparison with any similar work of antiquity;* "Teatro Olimpico", designed for the "Accademia Olimpica" and begun to be built in 1580, when Palladio died.
Leta 1996 je bil ta razširjen na paladijevske vile izven osrednjega območja in v skladu s tem preimenovan vpis v "City of Palladio and Palladian Villas Veneta".