Ca' Favretto (or "Palazzo Bragadin Favretto") is a palace in Venice, located in the Santa Croce district, overlooking the right side of the Grand Canal immediately after Ca' Corner della Regina.
Ca' Favretto is one of the palaces of the Bragadin family, one of the
24 "ancient" families of Venice who founded the city in 725. Its most
famous member was Marcantonio Bragadin, who conquered Cyprus for the
Venetians in the 15th century.
The Gothic palace dates from the
14th century and was built on the site of an older Byzantine building.
It was later rebuilt several times. The painter Giacomo Favretto
(1849-1887) lived there in the 19th century. Today the Hotel San
Cassiano is housed there.
The facade of the three-story building is plastered and painted
orange-red. The ground floor has a rectangular portal to the water
flanked by two rectangular frames in Istrian limestone and two single
windows of the same type.
On the first main floor, directly above
the portal, there is a loggia made of green lacquered wood with two
small rectangular windows. It is flanked by two pairs of rectangular
windows with green shutters. Between the two windows on the right sits a
marble plaque commemorating the painter who gave the house its name.
On the second floor, a magnificent quadruple keeled window with a
projecting balustered balcony catches the eye. Balcony and rectangular
window frames are made of Istrian limestone. On either side of the
quadruple window there are in turn two pairs of rectangular windows.
Above the two outer windows are keel-shaped ornaments in Istrian
limestone.
On the roof, above the serrated eaves, sits a large
central dormer with two single keeled windows framed in Istrian
limestone and fitted with green shutters.