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The off-centre balconies of Palazzo Pemma

Palazzo Pemma on Campo San Giacomo dall’Orio: the long piano nobile balcony runs across one half of the facade instead of standing at its centre
Palazzo Pemma on Campo San Giacomo dall’Orio: the long piano nobile balcony runs across one half of the facade instead of standing at its centre Photo: Abxbay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Campo San Giacomo dall’Orio is one of the greenest and most lived-in campi (a campo is a Venetian square) in Venice: trees, a wellhead, children playing among the tables of the bacari (the city’s wine bars). But it is worth raising your eyes to the pale facade of the palace that closes the campo towards the sotoportego Zambelli (a covered passage beneath the houses).

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