1560s in architecture
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- 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 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 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.
- * Construction of Charlton Park House in England by Henry Knyvet for himself begins.
- 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.
- 1566–67 – "Stari Most" bridge crossing the Neretva at Mostar in the Ottoman Empire, built by Mimar Hayruddin, is completed.
- 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.
- ** Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey, designed by Mimar Sinan.
- ** Longleat House in England, designed by Robert Smythson.
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