A meeting at the Pisani Palace noble floor in Lonigo was organized by boards which care for the promotion of  typical Vicenza wines. They discussed about oppurtunities that are offered by events of  “500 years of Palladio’s Birth” to the tourism in Berici Hills, that can become an attraction for tourism.

The purpose is the identification between Palladian style and a natural and harmonious way of life.Landscape, Villas, typical food and good wine as a whole can inspire new attractive tourist itinenaries.

The promotion plan organizes a series of events connected with the name “Palladio”, like educational tours, reserved to travel trade operators, and typical food exhibitions. The project for “un paniere dei prodotti tradizionali del Veneto e del Vicentino” (“a basket with traditional food of Veneto Region and Vicenza”) will be arranged under the Basilica Palladiana and there will be even a play about Palladio in the Olympic Theatre.

(By Lino Zonin, written for “Il Giornale di Vicenza” on 29th February)