Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza (Venice)

The Palazzo Barbarigo dalla Terrazza is a

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-style palace on the Grand Canal, across the Rio San Polo from the

Palazzo Cappello Layard The Palazzo or Ca' Cappello Layard is a palace situated in the sestiere of San Polo of Venice, Italy, overlooking the Grand Canal at the confluence between this and the smaller Rio di San Polo and Rio delle Erbe. On the Grand canal, it is loca ...

and adjacent to the

Palazzo Pisani Moretta Palazzo Pisani Moretta is a palace situated along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy (in the sestiere of San Polo) between Palazzo Tiepolo and Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza. History Built in the second half of the 15th Century by the Bembo fa ...

in the

sestiere of San Polo San Polo ( vec, San Poło) is the smallest and most central of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy, covering 86 acres (35 hectares) along the Grand Canal. It is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before ...

, in

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. In 2015, it housed the ''Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani''. Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza (Venice) rio san Polo

History

The patrician Daniele Barbarigo commissioned the palace from the architect

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, and construction took place during 1566–1570. The Barbarigo collection that included a number of

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paintings was sold to czars during the 1850s, and is now displayed in the Hermitage. Some of the renaissance decoration of some rooms is still in place.Turismo Venezia
entry on palace. Known for a large terrace overlooking the Grand Canal

References

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