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Ca' del Duca

Ca’ del Duca on the Grand Canal: the diamond-point rusticated blocks and the fluted column trunk are the remains of the unfinished palace of Marco Corner and Francesco Sforza (1460-1461)
Ca’ del Duca on the Grand Canal: the diamond-point rusticated blocks and the fluted column trunk are the remains of the unfinished palace of Marco Corner and Francesco Sforza (1460-1461) Photo: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0

On the Grand Canal, next to the rio del Duca (a small canal), the base of a palace that was never finished tells the story of the most ambitious dream of the Venetian 15th century.

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