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The Albrizzi family was originally from Bergamo but moved to Venice in the 16th century. The family was famous for the oil trade and for having made their merchant ships available to the Republic for the battles against the Turks. What can be…

The building can be dated around the second half of the 16th century as evidenced by the era of the still visible coat of arms of the Barbarigo family, which also gave the residence its name. It is composed of the aggregation of two adjacent…

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…

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,…

Ca 'Centani, or Palazzo Zantani or Centanni, was built between the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century and represents a typical Gothic palace of modest size; mandatory stop for theater and comedy lovers. The façade, a triptych in…

Some texts title this building Loredan Cini to remember its first and last owner; it seems to be the result of the unification of two buildings, Foscari and Grimani and its construction attributed to the second half of the sixteenth century The…

Palace known more often as "Scala del Bovolo", or "Scala Contarini del Bovolo", than with its actual name. Bòvoło is a Venetian term referring to the spiral-shaped stairs and the vortex. The characterizing element of this building, built between the…

According to some sources, the building was built by Jacopo Corner dal Banco, Donato's son, but over the centuries it underwent numerous restorations. In particular, in the mid-fifteenth century, the typical features of the flowery Gothic…

The building dates back to the late fifteenth century and is quite large in size, just think that the arcades on the first and second noble floors of the façade in Campo San Beneto measure 45 meters in length. It has two internal courtyards, of…

A few steps from Ca 'Zenobio degli Armeni and in front of the Carmini church is this sumptuous building that belonged to the important Foscarini family, whose wealth has been handed down from generation to generation for centuries. This palace,…

The construction of this building took place in the second half of the 15th century and its façade, dating back to the same period, has been extensively and in several moments renovated according to the wishes of the numerous owners who have…

Its construction dates back to the end of the nineteenth century, precisely 1892, by the hand of the architect Edoardo Trigomi Mattei in the place where the ancient abbey of San Gregorio stood, from which the name of the field derives. The main…