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Palazzo Mocenigo and the Barbaro-Nani Academy at the Zitelle

Palazzo Mocenigo on the Fondamenta San Giovanni: the long rusticated façade looking onto the Basin of St Mark
Palazzo Mocenigo on the Fondamenta San Giovanni: the long rusticated façade looking onto the Basin of St Mark Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

In the 15th and 16th centuries this Giudecca bank, facing St Mark’s, was the patricians’ riviera: palaces of delight with gardens, designed for rest and study.

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