Palazzo Emo Diedo is a palace in Venice located in the Santa Croce district, overlooking the Grand Canal, opposite the railway station. It is located along the foundations of San Simeone Piccolo, not far from the church of the same name.
The seventeenth-century building is an unfinished project by Andrea
Tirali from the second half of the seventeenth century: built for the
Emo family, this architecture contrasts with the contemporary and
dominant Baroque architecture of Baldassarre Longhena. The palace passed
to the Diedo family, hence the second name.
Today it is occupied by
the Sisters of Charity.
The neoclassical facade highlights the ground floor, a noble floor
and a good-sized attic, for a total of three floors and a total of
twenty openings.
On the ground floor, centrally, the portal is
flanked by two quadrangular windows, within an ashlar surface surmounted
by a balustrade; the latter corresponds to a balcony with a round-headed
three-mullioned window surmounted by a large tympanum. The rest of the
facade is plain and unadorned. At the back there is a garden.