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The Mocenigo Houses

The Casa Nuova of the Mocenigo on the Grand Canal: the Palladian façade of the residence where Lord Byron lived
The Casa Nuova of the Mocenigo on the Grand Canal: the Palladian façade of the residence where Lord Byron lived Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

It is the most aristocratic stretch of the Grand Canal: on the right bank, four palazzi joined in a single body of building, the Casa Vecchia and the Casa Nuova, tell eight centuries of the Mocenigo, the family that gave the Serenissima seven doges, twenty-seven procurators and a host of sea captains.

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