Category 01

Palaces

Built to be seen from the water, Venetian palaces are stage sets as much as homes — façades of light marble that sit just above the tide.

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For nearly a thousand years this was the political centre of the Republic — the doge's residence, the supreme court, the…

The most beautiful Gothic façade on the Grand Canal — once gilded leaf by leaf, hence the name, and now the home of a sm…

A baroque palazzo by Longhena, finished a century later by Massari, and now a museum whose rooms still feel like a worki…

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