Palazzo Brandolin Rota

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Palazzo Brandolin Rota

Palazzo Brandolin Rota is a palace in Venice in the Veneto region of Italy . It is located in the Dorsoduro sestiere overlooking the Grand Canal between the Galleria dell'Accademia and the Palazzo Contarini Polignac .

history

The Palazzo Brandolin Rota was built only two stories high in the 17th century. In the middle of the 18th century, the building was enlarged as it can be seen today. Franz Edler von Hruschka bought it in the second half of the same century .

Today the palace belongs to the Brandolini Rota family .

In the 19th century the Hotel Universo was housed there and for a short time the outstanding soprano Toti dal Monte stayed there . The Circolo Società dell'Unione , one of the last men's clubs in Italy, resided there .

At the moment the palace is used as a private house.

description

The Palazzo Brandolin Rota is a building with three full floors and a mezzanine floor between the ground floor and the first floor. Its facade facing the Grand Canal is simple; in the middle is the arched portal to the water. The two main floors of different year of construction, but essentially the same, each have nine arched openings, of which the middle five each form a five-fold window, which can be seen on the balustrades , those on the first floor in front of all windows, but on the second only in front of the central five-fold window are attached. Above that, the facade has a roof with two square individual windows in the middle.

swell

  • Marcello Brusegan: La grande guida dei monumenti di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2005. ISBN 88-541-0475-2 . Pp. 265-266.
  • Guida d'Italia - Venezia . 3. Edition. Touring Editore, Milan 2007. ISBN 978-88-365-4347-2 .
  • Pierfrancesco Fabris, Pier Alvise Zorzi: Venezia: il Canal Grande . Biblioteca dell'Immagine, Pordenone 2017. ISBN 978-88-6391-246-3 . Pp. 41-42.
  • Elsa Eleodori, Wanda Eleodori: Il Canal Grande: Palazzi e Famiglie . Publisher: Corbo e Fiore, Venice 2007. ISBN 88-7086-057-4 . Pp. 361-362.

Web links

Commons : Palazzo Brandolin Rota  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Jan-Christoph Rößler: Palazzo Rota Brandolin . venezia.jc-r.net. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  • Alessia Rosada, Carols Travaini: Palazzo Brandolin . In: Canal Grande di Venezia . Retrieved August 5, 2019.

Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 52.5 "  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 44.6"  E