Casa Ravà
Casa Ravà is a palace in Venice in the Veneto region of Italy . It is located in the San Polo sestiere overlooking the Grand Canal , near Palazzo Barzizza and the Church of San Silvestro .
history
The neo-Gothic building with crenellated parapets on the right-hand side was built in 1905 according to plans by Giovanni Sardi on the basis of an older building from the 16th to 17th centuries. Century built. This housed the residence of the Patriarch of Grado .
description
The palace, set back from the canal bank, has four floors. The ground floor with dark gray basketry has various rectangular windows and doors. It is separated from the upper floors by a cornice . The rest of the facade is plastered and painted red, with the exception of a white frame around the two middle windows on the two main floors.
The first main floor has nine single three-pass windows distributed irregularly across the width of the facade, next to the two middle windows in the frame on the left and right three windows of the same size and on the far left edge a smaller, similar window. The middle two windows are connected to a protruding balcony . Between the second and third three-pass window from the right there is a small, square window. The window layout on the second main floor is essentially the same as on the first, although the left, smaller three-pass window has been replaced by a small, square window and the four central windows have balconies. The mezzanine floor under the roof has eight three-pass windows, the two on the right merging into a double window flanked by two formals . Each floor is separated from the one above by a cornice.
The facade closes at the top with a serrated eaves that extends from the far left over the first six windows. A white parapet with battlements sits above the double window on the right , flanked by two tourelles . On the roof there is a large dormer window with a square double window in the middle, flanked by two smaller dormers with square single windows. Two large chimney heads sit in front of these side dormer windows.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alessia Rosada, Carlos Travaini: Casa Ravà . In: Canal Grande di Venezia . Retrieved December 5, 2019.
swell
- Marcello Brusegan: I palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 .
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 13.6 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 59.9 ″ E