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Palazzo Balbi

Palazzo Balbi ’in volta de canal’: Vittoria’s symmetrical façade (1582-90) with the obelisks on the roof
Palazzo Balbi ’in volta de canal’: Vittoria’s symmetrical façade (1582-90) with the obelisks on the roof Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

At the level of the most spectacular elbow of the Grand Canal, the celebrated ’Volta de Canal’, where the water bends and every façade becomes a stage, the massive bulk of Palazzo Balbi stands beside the Gothic tracery of Ca’ Foscari.

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