A stone’s throw from the Rialto Bridge, overlooking the rio della Fava (a small canal), stands one of Venice’s most majestic Gothic buildings: Palazzo Giustinian-Faccanon — mind the surnames, the city counts several Giustinian houses, from the ’Vescovi’ of Dorsoduro to the Ca’ Giustinian of the Europa hotel — erected in the second half of the 15th century, when the Calendari were finishing the Doge’s Palace building site.