Buildings Buddhist temple at
Luang Prabang, Laos in
Florence, Italy in
Venice, Italy • 1560 •
Palladian villas of the Veneto:
Villa Foscari is completed and
Villa Barbaro is probably begun. •
Wat Xieng Thong Buddhist temple at
Luang Prabang in the kingdom of
Lan Xang (modern-day
Laos) is completed. • Construction of the
Uffizi in
Florence, designed by
Giorgio Vasari, begins. • Construction of
Mexico City Cathedral begins. • Reconstruction of
Poznań Town Hall in Poland by
Giovanni Battista di Quadro is completed. • 1561 •
Saint Basil's Cathedral,
Moscow, designed by
Postnik Yakovlev, is completed. • The
Tian Yi Ge library in
Ningbo (
Ming dynasty China) is established. • 1562–64 • Façade of the church of
San Francesco della Vigna in
Venice, designed by
Andrea Palladio, is built. • Church of
Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in
Rome, designed by
Michelangelo, is adapted from the Baths of Diocletian. • 1562–67 – Church of San Pedro and San Pablo,
Zacatlán,
Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, is built. • 1562 – Dome of
Basilica of Our Lady of Humility,
Pistoia,
Tuscany, designed by
Giorgio Vasari, is built. • 1563 •
Villa Badoer, one of the
Palladian villas of the Veneto designed by
Andrea Palladio in
1556, is completed. • Construction of
El Escorial palace in Spain, designed by
Juan de Herrera, begins (completed
1584). • Construction of
Charlton Park House in England by
Henry Knyvet for himself begins (completed
1607). • 1564 •
Vasari Corridor in Florence, designed by
Giorgio Vasari, is built. •
Somersal Herbert Hall near
Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, is built. • 1565–66 •
Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice is designed by Palladio and construction begins. • Temple of
Haw Phra Kaew in
Vientiane,
Laos, is built. • 1565–69 – Church of
Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri, Pisa, designed by
Giorgio Vasari, is built. • 1565–72 –
Humayun's Tomb in
Delhi,
India is built, probably also including the
Afsarwala tomb. • 1566 – Construction of the city of
Valletta on
Malta, designed by
Francesco Laparelli, begins (March 28). • 1566–67 – "
Stari Most" bridge crossing the
Neretva at
Mostar in the Ottoman Empire, built by Mimar Hayruddin, is completed. 's
Villa Capra "La Rotonda" • 1567 • First
Royal Exchange, London, completed as the Bourse. • Construction of
Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in
Vicenza, designed by
Andrea Palladio, begins. • 1568 • The
Palace of Charles V in
Madrid, Spain, is completed. • Construction begins of: •
Church of the Gesù in Rome, designed by
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (June 26). •
Selimiye Mosque in
Edirne, Turkey, designed by
Mimar Sinan (completed
1574). •
Longleat House in
England, designed by
Robert Smythson. ==Events==