Palazzo Vendramin Calergi

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Eccentricity and elegance can be considered the two main characteristics of this palace, which overlooks the Grand Canal.
Today it houses the municipal casino, better known as the 'Venice Casino’.

One of the most architecturally eccentric palaces in Venice, composed of three levels divided by accentuated string courses, supported by semi-columns with superimposed orders defined as "ancient": Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.

Five large uneven mullioned windows (three side by side in the center, two more isolated on the sides), enliven the scheme of each floor, giving it the appearance of a two-storey loggia, which is also taken up on the ground floor, where instead of the central window there is the main door; right here, there is an inscription from the Bible "Non nobis, Domi

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