Casa Ravà is a palace in Venice, located in the San Polo district,
overlooking the right side of the Grand Canal.
Neo-Gothic
building, with lateral crenellated turret and front garden, rebuilt in
place of the ancient Venetian residence of the patriarch of Grado.
The neo-Gothic building with crenellated parapet on the right was built in 1905 to plans by Giovanni Sardi on the basis of an older 16th-17th century building. century built. This was the residence of the Patriarch of Grado.
Set back from the canal bank, the palace has four floors. The ground
floor with dark gray rustication has various rectangular windows and
doors. It is separated from the upper floors by a cornice. The rest of
the facade is plastered and painted red, except for a white frame around
the two central windows on the two main floors.
The first main
floor has nine individual trefoil windows distributed irregularly across
the width of the facade, in addition to the two middle ones in the
frame, three windows of the same size on the left and right and on the
extreme left edge another smaller, similar window. The middle two
windows are connected to a projecting balcony. Between the second and
third trefoil window from the right is a small, square window. The
window layout on the second main floor essentially corresponds to that
on the first, although the smaller trefoil window on the far left has
been replaced by a small, square window and the four central windows
have balconies. The mezzanine under the roof has eight trefoil windows,
the right two grouped into a double window flanked by two formals. Each
floor is separated from the one above by a cornice.
The facade
ends at the top with a toothed eaves, which stretches from the far left
over the first six windows. Above the double window on the right sits a
white crenellated parapet flanked by two turrets. On the roof there is a
large dormer with a square double window in the middle, flanked by two
smaller dormers with square single windows. Two large chimney heads sit
in front of these side dormer windows.