Palazzo Flangini is a palace in Venice, located in the Cannaregio district overlooking the Grand Canal. It is located next to the Church of San Geremia and not far from Palazzo Labia.
Palazzo Flangini was built in the 17th century by the architect Giuseppe Sardi, a disciple of Baldassarre Longhena. Belonging to the Flangini family of Cypriot origin, after the death of the last descendant, Cardinal Ludovico Flangini, the palace passed to the Panciera family.
The building has a narrow and long facade but the asymmetry of the prospectus is clearly visible. The architect Giuseppe Sardi wanted the main facade to be divided into three horizontal orders to give it a sense of symmetry, but for mysterious reasons he was never able to give the very symmetry he was looking for so much. On the facade facing the Grand Canal, it has a water portal decorated with two male figures leaning languidly on the arch, two main floors with lateral single and four-light windows supported by composite and Ionic semi-columns which are joined by continuous projecting and decorated balconies with heads in arc key. Inside it preserves architectural elements of great value together with precious eighteenth-century decorations. The portego is completely shifted to the left, like that of Ca' Tron: in this case, however, the windows fail to hide the constructive discrepancy.
There are many stories and legends that can be heard about the evident asymmetry of Palazzo Flangini: in fact, the entire right wing is missing. Palazzo Flangini should be almost twice as wide: in fact it appears tall and asymmetrical in the arrangement of doors and windows. The most accredited theory is the one supported by those who say that the building has a missing wing because the Flangini family never managed to buy the adjoining house, while the story in which it is told that Palazzo Flangini was inherited by two brothers is only a legend in serious discord between them and which was demolished by one of the two of the half that was due to him, to spite the other.