Palazzo Calbo Crotta
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Palazzo Calbo Crotta is a palace in Venice in the Veneto region of Italy . It is located in the Cannaregio sestiere overlooking the Grand Canal at the Ponte degli Scalzi and at the beginning of the Lista di Spagna street .
history
Palazzo Calbo Crotta dates back to the 14th century when it was built as the home of the Calbo family . In the centuries that followed, it was rebuilt many times and received its current appearance in the 17th century.
In the 18th century it fell to the Crotta family , who had the interior completely rebuilt and embellished with works of art and furnishings.
Today the palace mainly houses private apartments.
description
The palace is an elongated building with three floors and a mezzanine floor under the roof.
The facade facing the canal is painted white and stylistically divided into two areas that are structured in the same way: Both have rows of individual windows, in the middle of which triple windows stand out on the two main floors, and on the right side of the building are provided with a stone parapet .
The architectural style of the left side of the building is Gothic with arched keel windows , that of the right side of the building is typical of the Renaissance with round arched windows .
On the ground floor a terrace opens onto the Grand Canal.
Inside the palace there are numerous frescoes by Jacopo Guarana . The Unione Veneta Bonifiche , the affiliated and representative organization of the consortia for the reclamation of Veneto, is located on the first floor .
swell
- Marcello Brusegan: I Palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Crompton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 . P. 47.
Web links
- Jan-Christoph Rößler: Palazzo Calbo Crotta . venezia.jc-r.net. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 29.9 " N , 12 ° 19 ′ 23.2" E