The red building with the arcade of shops that every traveller sees from the top of the Ponte degli Scalzi, between the station and the dome of San Simeon Piccolo. Its name, its date and its architect are not documented in any published source we could find: this page says what is seen and what is missing.
At a glance
The building stands at the Santa Croce end of the Ponte degli Scalzi, on the small square that opens at the foot of the bridge beside the church of San Simeon Piccolo, where the way to Piazzale Roma begins. Stefano Vigolo, who photographed it from the steps of the bridge in April 2014, calls it simply «the central red palace»; the reverse geocoding of his map pin gives the address Santa Croce 730a. A café and a shop occupy the arcade at street level.
What this page does not say. We found no published source that names this building, dates it or gives its architect. An earlier version of this page, generated automatically on 23 October 2026, placed it near the Ponte dei Pugni in Dorsoduro and cited documents about buildings called Palazzo Rosso in Genoa and Poznań: the location was wrong and the sources were unrelated, and both have been removed. What remains is what the photograph shows and where the pin falls.
Key facts
- Where: Campo San Simeon Piccolo, Santa Croce, at the foot of the Ponte degli Scalzi
- Address (from the map pin): Santa Croce 730a
- Name, date and architect: not documented in any published source found so far
- What is seen: four storeys, red plaster, a ground floor in white stone with three round arches of shops, round-arched windows with balustrades on the first floor, rectangular windows above
- GPS: 45.4409, 12.3231 · Open in Google Maps (OpenStreetMap)
What is known, and what is believed
The surroundings are among the best documented in Venice. The Ponte degli Scalzi, the stone bridge of 1934 by Eugenio Miozzi, links the railway station to Santa Croce; the church of San Simeon Piccolo, with its green dome and Corinthian portico, closes the view on the Grand Canal; the station of Santa Lucia and Ca’ Nigra stand a few steps away. The building in the photograph belongs to the ordinary fabric of this corner of the city, rebuilt more than once as the station quarter grew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
On the building itself we have only the photograph. Its plain red front, the regular windows and the stone arcade with large shop windows suggest a construction or a thorough rebuilding of the twentieth century — a belief from what is seen, not a documented date. The photographer’s own notes give no name beyond the colour.
What you see
From the top of the bridge the building fills the end of the square: a ground floor faced in white Istrian stone, with three round arches holding the windows of a shop and a café and a wider entrance at the right; above it a first floor of round-arched windows with small balustrades and flower boxes, then two floors of rectangular windows with awnings, under a dentilled cornice. To its left a pale pink house with Gothic windows and shuttered shops; to its right, beyond a narrow calle, an ochre house with a Gothic window and the yellow sign that points the way to Piazzale Roma. In the square, groups of visitors gather at the foot of the bridge’s balustrade.
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Nearby
- Ponte degli Scalzi — the bridge from whose steps the photograph was taken
- San Simeone Piccolo — the domed church beside the square
- Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia — across the Grand Canal
- Ca’ Nigra — the palace on the Grand Canal a few steps away
Sources
- Cultural Heritage Online, Ponte degli Scalzi and San Simeone Piccolo: the bridge of 1934 by Eugenio Miozzi and the church with the green dome that frame the square
- Stefano Vigolo, photograph of 1 April 2014 and map pin sent to the editorial staff on 26 September 2026: the identification of the building and its position. Not a published source
- OpenStreetMap (Nominatim), 45.4409, 12.3231: the address Santa Croce 730a and the position at the foot of the Ponte degli Scalzi
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