Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel is a palace in Venice located in the Cannaregio district.
The palace was built between 1473 and 1479 for Nicolò Soranzo with material recovered from an ancient Gradenigo palace. The particular glimpses of the adjacent church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli and the coincidence of the construction period make it probable that Nicolò Soranzo was also involved in the construction of the church. The palace then passed to the Veniers and Sanudos and finally in 1652 to the Van Axels, rich merchants from Holland and more precisely from Axel near Ghent who were admitted to the Venetian patriciate in 1665.
The building, located at the crossroads between the Rio de la Panada and the Rio de Ca' Widmann, has late Gothic characteristics, has two internal courtyards with external staircases and two noble floors. The L-shaped "porteghi" (passing halls) are very particular due to the double corner facing onto the crossing of the canals. The entrance door on Fondamenta de le Erbe is remarkable, in original wood with a lunette and the Van Axel coat of arms. The portion of the building that closes the complex to the south by a few meters in width is curious: surely built after the rest of the building, it stands above a detachment originally imposed by the court of the Serenissima for a dispute over the property with the adjacent nunnery.