The Grandeur of Venetian Palaces
The Grand Canal, Venice’s main artery, is where the most illustrious Venetian noble families lived and where the most prestigious palaces still stand. These palazzi have been the homes of artists, writers, musicians, doges and, of course, merchants. If you take the vaporetto (the water bus) along the Grand Canal you will see a succession of big windows of different shapes, as well as balconies, loggias, arcades, pointed arches, rounded arches, pretty decorations like a row of lace, ornate carvings, red porphyry roundels, lions and diverse chimney pots. There is so much to take in that you will struggle to admire it all in one journey! All along the canal’s banks you can see the grand homes that showed offthe wealth and power of the families that lived there.
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The architecture of the palaces springs from different periods: Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical. The styles of western, (a house-warehouse): both the home and the place of trade for its merchant owners.
