La facciata del Palazzo Querini Stampalia

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Elegant and rich, this palace belongs to the Querini family, one of the oldest families in Venice and one of the first founders of the lagoon city.
The last descendant, Giovanni Querini of the Stampalia branch, left the city an enviable picture gallery and a house-museum of particular beauty.

The name Stampalia refers to the homonymous Greek island located in the Sporades archipelago.

It is said that a member of the Querini family of the Zuane branch was banished from Venice because he was involved in the conspiracy of Bajamonte Tiepolo; fled to Rhodes he bought the island which remained a possession of the Querini family until 1537. The name of the island later became the nickname of this branch of the family.

The creator of the project for this building is not known, while the construction date is attributed to the early sixteenth century, although s

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