Ca' Tron is a palace in Venice, located in the Santa Croce district, overlooking the Grand Canal and located between Palazzo Belloni Battagia and Palazzo Duodo, near San Stae. The building is owned by the IUAV University of Venice and the historic Faculty of Urban Planning and Territorial Planning is located there.
Built in the second half of the sixteenth century, Ca' Tron is the
result of an anonymous project from the school of Sansovino, to house
the Tron family, who lived there until its extinction (19th century).
The period of maximum splendor of the building was reached under the
noble Andrea Tron, who wanted to expand it with two side wings.
Subsequently, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, Ca' Tron
underwent a profound decline, with numerous changes of management, until
starting in 1972 the building became the headquarters of the IUAV of
Venice, which undertook a major restoration .
The building, which has a U-shaped plan, consists of a ground floor,
a mezzanine and two noble floors: the latter, unlike the former, have a
surface in Istrian stone. The facade is asymmetrical, being the left
side less extensive: the portal and the central openings of the main
floors are, therefore, moved to the left of the axis.
The opening of
the noble floors, divided by a string course, is made up of eight round
arched windows, with the four central ones joined to form a quadrifora.
On the small rear facade of Ca' Tron, which overlooks the garden with a
well in the centre, there are two round five-light windows with a
balustrade on the noble floors, on the ground floor a single opening
divided by two small columns.
Inside, the building has been
profoundly remodeled, as a result of the various functions to which it
has been used in the last two centuries, with consequent degradation of
the artistic heritage; for this reason the frescoes by Louis Dorigny and
the stuccos present inside are not in good condition, despite the
restorations.