Palazzo Adoldo is a palace in Venice, located in the Santa Croce
district at numbers 711-712 and overlooking the Grand Canal near Palazzo
Foscari Contarini, not far from the Church of San Simeon Piccolo.
It overlooks the Grand Canal, narrowed on the left by the campiello
della Comare, beyond which stands the church of San Simeon Piccolo, and
on the right by Palazzo Foscari Contarini. Together with the latter, it
constitutes the Venetian branch of INAIL.
It has ancient origins and was the residence of the Adoldo or
Adoaldo, a family of Greek origins ascribed to the Venetian patriciate
and extinct in 1432. An exponent of the family, Lucia Adoldo, donated
the palace to the parish of San Simeon Piccolo, as evidenced by an
inscription on the facade.
The same plaque reminds us that in
1520 the unsafe building was rebuilt in larger forms by Vittore Spiera.
The facade is spread over three floors plus a mezzanine in the attic.
On the ground floor, remodeled, there are simple rectangular
openings in white stone. The two noble floors are instead characterized
by a pair of single lancet windows on each side (between those of the
first floor there are two bas-reliefs), inserted in stone frames, and by
a central mullioned window, supported by Ionic columns and closed by a
parapet, in stone on the first floor, in wrought iron on the second.
The attic is characterized by a peculiar elevation in which a
lunette above three paired square windows is inscribed. On its top a
statuette representing an eagle.