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.
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Read the buyer's guideMakers & Houses
Vicenza is Italy's gold capital, a goldsmithing tradition documented since the guild-era Fraglia degli Orafi from 1399 and still lived today through family houses that alloy, make and sell 18kt gold from within the city and its province.
The district's best-known names, the VICENZAORO fair, the assay laboratory, and the Museo del Gioiello, are trade and cultural institutions, not consumer shops. The consumer-facing tier is carried by family goldsmith houses and central-Vicenza shopfronts.
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FOPE
Fabbrica Oreficeria Preziosi EsportazioneKnown for 18kt gold bracelets, necklaces, rings and earrings, including the patented Flex'it flexible-gold mesh
A family-owned Vicenza goldsmith founded in 1929, still headquartered and manufacturing in the city, one of the district's defining brands and the origin of the patented Flex'it flexible 18kt gold.
Chimento
Known for gold jewellery, including its Bamboo, Armillas and stackable-link lines
Founded in Vicenza in 1964 by Adriano Chimento, the house keeps its craft production within the Vicenza goldsmith district, sold through its own site and authorised retailers.
Roberto Coin
Known for handcrafted 18kt gold jewellery, each carrying the brand's signature ruby set against the skin
Rooted in Vicenza from 1977 and established as its own eponymous brand in 1996, headquartered in Italy's gold capital, a globally distributed house a consumer can buy directly and through fine jewellers.
Marco Bicego
Known for 18kt gold jewellery hand-finished with engraving and hammered textures
Marco Bicego launched his eponymous brand around 2000 in the Vicenza goldsmithing province, building on his family's goldsmithing background. Pieces are hand-finished and assembled locally.
Nanis Italian Jewels
Known for 18kt gold, diamond and gemstone jewellery, including the signature hand-etched 'Boule' gold pearls
Founded in 1990 by Laura Bicego and Piero Marangon, both from Vicenza jewellery-making families, known for hand-burin engraving of 18kt gold.
Antica Gioielleria Balzarin
Known for handcrafted gold, silver and gemstone jewellery, watches and silverware, plus repairs and appraisals
A named, long-standing consumer shopfront in the heart of the district, trading in Vicenza since 1918 on Piazza dei Signori beside the Basilica Palladiana.
Orologeria Concato
Known for fine jewellery and watches, made-to-measure pieces, and goldsmithing repairs
A named consumer shopfront in central Vicenza near the Basilica Palladiana, offering retail sales, made-to-measure jewellery and repair services.
- Oreficeria Orologeria Ischia Italo · A walk-in jeweller and watchmaker on Corso Palladio 200, historic centre
- VICENZAORO. The international B2B goldsmith and jewellery trade fair, first launched in 1954.
- Laboratorio di Saggio dei Metalli Preziosi. The assay office and hallmarking laboratory, part of the Vicenza Chamber of Commerce.
- Museo del Gioiello. Italy's first museum dedicated to the art of jewellery, inside the Basilica Palladiana.
- Fraglia degli Orafi di Vicenza. Vicenza's goldsmiths' guild, documented from 1399, the historical origin of the district's tradition.
On the map
- VicenzaOro (the international jewellery fair)
- T.Gold (precious-metal machinery hall)
- The Vicenza gold production district
