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The Grand Canal: the Rialto to San Marco

After passing the Rialto, the canal Palazzo Mocenigo
doubles back on itself along a Lord Byron stayed in
stretch known as La Volta (the this huge 18th-century
palace in 1818.
bend). It then widens out and the
views become more spectacular
approaching San Marco. Façades
may have faded and foundations
battered with the tides, yet the
canal remains, in the words of the
French ambassador in 1495, “the
most beautiful street in the world”.
Sant’ Angelo
San Tomà

Palazzo Garzoni
is a renovated
Gothic palace.

Ca’ Rezzonico
Now a museum of 18th-century San
Venice (see p107), the palace was Samuele
the last home of the poet Robert
Browning, seen here with his son Pen.
Palazzo Grassi
Ca’ Rezzonico This elegant palazzo dates from
the 1730s. Bought by French tycoon
François-Henri Pinault in 2005,
it is now used for art exhibitions.

Ponte dell’Accademia

Accademia
Palazzo Capello Malipiero
The palace was rebuilt in 1622.
Beside it stands the 12th-century
campanile of San Samuele.

Accademia Palazzo Barbaro
The world’s greatest Novelist Henry James
collection of Venetian wrote The Aspern
paintings is housed here Papers here in 1888.
in the former Scuola della
Carità (see pp110–11), which
has a Baroque façade by
Giorgio Massari.

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