Fontana Rezzonico Palace is a palace in Venice, located in the Cannaregio district, overlooking the left side of the Grand Canal, just before the Ca 'd'Oro palace, between the confluence of the Rio di San Felice and the Palazzo Miani Coletti Giusti.
The owners and clients of the building were the Fontana, merchants from Piacenza who settled in Venice in the mid-sixteenth century.
Determined to build their own palace, in the early seventeenth century they bought a pre-existing structure that was demolished to make room for the current building.
Towards the end of the seventeenth century the palace was leased to the Rezzonico family, recently ascribed to the Venetian nobility, waiting for the construction of their property in Ca 'Rezzonico to be completed. Carlo Rezzonico, the future Pope Clement XIII, was born in this building in 1693.
Like many other Venetian families, with the crisis resulting from the fall of the Republic of Venice, the Fontana were forced to sell their palace which was bought by the banker Johann Conrad Reck. Later it was bought by the Levi and then by the Sullams, who are the current owners.
After the Rio di Noale and next to the Rio di San Felice stands this large building built between the end of the 1500s and the beginning of the 1600s. The facade is asymmetrical, with quadrifonie flanked by mullioned windows aligned with the entrance door.
Built for the Fontana family, from Piacenza, who came to the city in 1549. For a period this palace was rented to the Rezzonico family and here was born that Carlo Rezzonico who would become Pope Clement XIII.
Fountain Rezzonico Palace
Address: Calle Fontana, 30121
Phone: +39 390 412 748
Site:
https://www.comune.venezia.it/Location inserted by
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