Palazzo Calbo Crotta is an architecture of Venice, located in the Cannaregio district and overlooking the Grand Canal, where the Scalzi bridge stands.
Palazzo Calbo Crotta dates back to the 14th century, when it was
built to be the home of the Calbo family, and was remodeled numerous
times over the following centuries, assuming its current appearance in
the 17th century.
In the eighteenth century it passed to the
Crotta family, who made changes especially to the interiors,
embellishing them with works of art and furnishings.
Currently,
in good condition, the building mainly houses private apartments.
The building is a complex developed in length and three floors high
with a mezzanine in the attic.
The facade on the canal is
plastered in white, stylistically divided into two equally structured
parts: both have rows of single-light windows, in the center of which,
on the two main floors, the presence of three-light windows is
emphasized, those on the right side with stone parapet.
The style
of the left side is Gothic, with ogival openings; that of the right side
typically Renaissance, with round arched openings.
On the ground
floor there is a terrace overlooking the first stretch of the Grand
Canal.
Inside there are numerous frescoes by Jacopo Guarana.
On the first floor is the Unione Veneta Bonifiche, an association
and representative body of the Veneto reclamation consortia.