Palazzo Foscari del Prà (also called Palazzetto Foscari del Prà) is a palace in Venice, in Venetian Gothic style built in the second half of the fourteenth century but remodeled in the following century, located in the Cannaregio district (N.A. 4201), near the Church of Santa Sofia. It overlooks the Grand Canal, next to Palazzo Morosini Sagredo.
In 1520 the ambassador of the Duchy of Mantua lived here and the leader Federico Gonzaga also had the opportunity to stay there on a diplomatic mission on behalf of the French crown. The building passed to the Del Prà family. In the 18th century it was the residence of the German merchant Sigismund Streit. At the end of the 1950s, the Palazzetto was bought by the entrepreneur from Trieste, Dr. Bruno Permutti. The Permutti family lived there until 2001. The Palazzetto was also the seat of the German consulate until 2001. In 2003 it was transformed into a hotel, now the Foscari Palace Hotel.
Its facade, of modest dimensions, is however embellished by a Gothic
mullioned window with marble columns of different colors and placed in
an asymmetrical position. To the right, between the windows of the
second floor, the bas-relief of the Foscari coat of arms surmounted by a
Madonna and Child is still visible.
The three-story building has
an access portal to the water on the ground floor, offset from the
center to the right, with an ogival arch. To the right is a rectangular
window, to the left are two. The main first floor has a six-paned triple
window (hexaphora), offset from the center to the left and flanked by a
single triple window to the right. The two outer windows of the six-sash
window and the single window have wide sills made of Istrian limestone,
resting on corbels. On the symmetrically designed second main floor,
there is a three-step double window in the center, flanked by two single
windows of the same type. All second floor windows have small projecting
balconies made of Istrian limestone. All the windows of the facade, as
well as the portal to the water, have frames made of Istrian limestone.
The ground floor is separated from the upper floors by a cornice.
The gutter is serrated. Above it, on the right hand side, is a large
chimney head. Above the sixth triple passage window on the first floor
there are partly (2nd, 3rd and 6th windows) Bourbon lilies in half
relief. On the second floor a half relief is placed between the double
window and the single window on the right.