Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare is a Palace of Vicenza designed by Andrea Palladio presumably in 1572 and built by Vincenzo Scamozzi after the death of the master.

Since 1994, along with the other Palladian architecture of Vicenza, it has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The building stands at the beginning of Corso Palladio, at the northern corner with Piazza Castello. It is a building developed on two floors with an attic above, which faces the two urban spaces with very different elevations in rhythm and architectural layout, the result of two distinct design elaborations.

On the history of the building that Francesco Thiene had built on the family properties at the western end of the Strada Maggiore (now Corso Palladio) there are more doubts than certainties at the Castle, starting from the exact date of construction. At the death of Palladio the building is not yet realized: only the old houses and the garden still appear in the 1580 Pianta Angelica . From a document dated 1586, the building site was at least begun and certainly in 1593, at the death of the client Francesco Thiene, the building was built for at least a third. Enea Thiene, who inherits the property of his uncle Francesco, brings the factory to its conclusion, probably within the first decade of the seventeenth century.

The palace will be purchased in 1835 by Lelio Bonin Longare.

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