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Casa Favretto (formerly Bragadin)

Casa Favretto on the Grand Canal: the 14th-century pointed-arch palazzetto between the Pescheria and the rio di San Cassiano
Casa Favretto on the Grand Canal: the 14th-century pointed-arch palazzetto between the Pescheria and the rio di San Cassiano Photo: Armin Kleiner, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Casa Favretto is a small Gothic palazzo on the right bank of the Grand Canal, tucked between the Pescheria and the rio di San Cassiano (a Venetian canal). Its 14th-century pointed-arch façade has a precious detail that is easy to miss: a Veneto-Byzantine cornice, nearly a thousand years old, made from an 11th-century piece of sculpture reused as a frieze.

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