Palazzo Malipiero.

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View of Palazzo Malipiero on the Grand Canal, engraving by Luca Carlevarijs (circa 1716).

Just beyond the 'canal vault', there appears majestically this residence located next to the prestigious Palazzo Grassi and referred to as la Ca' Granda de' San Samuel' because of its proximity to the church of the same name, one of the few that overlooks the Grand Canal.

The palace is often associated with the name of an illustrious personage who lived in the San Samuele parish and whose innate amatory vocation was already evident at a young age. We are talking about Giacomo Casanova.

Equipped, like most Venetian palaces, with two superimposed floors, it has the particularity of having an independent entrance for each of them, through its own staircase or a water door. The main door leads to the large seventeenth-century atrium, which leads to the majestic apartment on the first noble floor.

Of very ancient Venetian-Byzantine origins, this building dates back to the X-XI century at the behest of the Soranzo family. It was bought at the beginning of the fifteenth century by the Cappello family, dedicated to trade, who raised the building by one floor. In the 1

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