Palazzetto Costantini is a palace in Venice, located in the Dorsoduro district (70), in rio tò dei Saloni, a few meters north of the Magazzini del Sale.
A little-known and small-sized building, Palazzetto Costantini dates
back to the Middle Ages.
The characterizing element is the
protrusion of the building with respect to the adjacent buildings, a
stratagem requested by the clients to increase the space of the building
even above the facing foundations (in fact a stream passed in front of
it, which was filled up only in the 19th century): for this reason, on
the ground floor there is a large portico with a wooden architrave
supported by an ancient and simple colonnade, dating back to the 14th
century.
The original architectural style was Gothic, but today
it appears mixed, due to the insertion, in the central part of the two
upper floors, of round arched three-light windows, which has tampered
with the original structure.