page_title: International Library La Vigna
section_title: The base
hierarchical_section_title: International Library La Vigna / The base
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Appartamento Scarpa
context_page_description: Centro di Cultura e Civiltà Contadina - Biblioteca Internazionale La Vigna is an institute of documentation specialised in studies concerning agriculture and wine. It is considered as the most important reference point for ampelographic research worldwide.
  It is situated in Vicenza in Contrà Porta Santa Croce n. 3 in Palazzo Brusarosco, then Galla. The palace is an eighteenth-century building, which was partially restored by the architect Carlo Scarpa.
context_section_description: “Centro di Cultura e Civiltà Contadina” and Biblioteca Internazionale “La Vigna” have their headquarters in  Palazzo Brusarosco. The few information about the original building say that it was a house situated within the fifteenth-century Scaliger city walls. In the following centuries the house was time after time modified. In the eighteenth century the building was widened by Ottone Calderari. The new owner  Orazio Brusarosco entrusted the architect Tommaso Becega the task of  rebuilding the porch and facade in 1833.
  During the Second World War the building was hardly damaged because of the Anglo-American bombings.
  The lawyer from Vicenza Ettore Gallo bought the building in the early seventies. He assigned the renovations to the architect Carlo Scarpa. Then, he moved there his law firm and his house. On the second floor Scarpa planned the house for the family Gallo, converting the loft into a large flat. There he converged two themes he loved: the residence and the museum. The special features of the flat are fluent paths, smooth corners and the absence of doors. It is also lighted from natural, indirect and diaphanous light. Today this flat is mainly used for exhibitions and conferences.  
  On the first floor, where the present library is based, Scarpa strengthened the ceiling of the living room and of the hall inserting girders.
  On the ground floor was built an independent flat that is now used as storage area of books.
caption: The second floor renovated by Carlo Scarpa.
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