Vicenza Gold District
Italy's "city of gold" — 700 years of goldsmithing and the home of VicenzaOro, Europe's leading gold and jewellery fair
Gold manufacturing
Vicenza, in the Veneto, is Italy's città dell'oro — the city of gold. Where Florence is a romantic bridge of jewellers, Vicenza is the workshop and the marketplace: a gold-jewellery manufacturing district with more than 700 years of goldsmithing behind it, and the home of VicenzaOro, Europe's leading international gold-and-jewellery fair.
Goldsmithing here reaches back to the Middle Ages, and over the centuries Vicenza became one of the excellences of "Made in Italy" — a production district turning out gold jewellery for the world rather than a shopfront destination.
Its global role today runs through the fair. VicenzaOro launched in 1954 as a regional trade show, took its name in the 1980s, and is now more than 70 years old: the international reference event for goldsmithing, jewellery, and watchmaking, with over 1,300 exhibitors spanning the whole chain — from high jewellery to unbranded manufacturing to stones and components, plus T.Gold, its hall dedicated to the machinery that works precious metals.
It is, in short, the manufacturing-and-showcase end of Italian gold: where the trade is made, and where it gathers.
On the map
- VicenzaOro (the international jewellery fair)
- T.Gold (precious-metal machinery hall)
- The Vicenza gold production district