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72  VENICE AREA B Y AREA

Ca’ Rezzonico
Ca’ Rezzonico to
the Guggenheim

This southern stretch of the canal,
widening after the Accademia, is lined
by a rich and varied parade of palaces.

Palazzo del Duca, planned in the 15th
century as a sumptuous palace but never
finished, houses a collection of porcelain.
Palazzo Falier was
said to have been
home to Doge Marin
Falier, who was
beheaded for
treason in 1355
(see p47).

Palazzo degli Scrigni, built in
1609, acquired its name from the
coffers (scrigni) inherited by the
Contarini in 1418.
Accademia

Palazzo Loredan, home of
Doge Francesco Loredan
(1752–62), is one of many
belonging to that family.

The wooden Accademia Bridge was built in 1932
as a temporary structure to replace a 19th-century
iron bridge. By popular demand it has been retained.

Palazzo Contarini del Zaffo,
a magnificent Renaissance
The Accademia galleries, within the palace of the late 1400s,
former church, monastery and Scuola was built for a branch of
della Carità, house the world’s the ubiquitous Contarini
greatest collection of Venetian family. It is now owned
paintings (see pp134–7). by the Polignac family.

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