The building is the result of the seventeenth-century renovation (entrusted to Antonio Gaspari) of a Byzantine warehouse-house built around the thirteenth century.
The long portico on the ground floor, which runs along the entire façade that opens onto the Grand Canal, is made up of tall columns joined together by round arches with serliana; from those, derives the name of the building.
The first owners of the building were the Grimani and later, in the seventeenth century, the property passed to the Zen, patrons of the restoration that brought, in substance, new
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