Next to the long block of the Palazzi Mocenigo, at San Samuele, this palace has two faces from very distant eras: the front on the Grand Canal is late 16th-century, ordered around a water portal, Serlian window and four-light window; but the rear opens onto a broad courtyard where an almost thousand-year-old Venice survives — a vera da pozzo (wellhead) of the 10th-11th centuries, parapets with pointed-arch balconies and an open staircase.