Ca' da Mosto

The Ca 'da Mosto is a palace from the 13th century in Venice and the oldest building on the Grand Canal. He is not far from the Rialto Bridge in the Cannaregio district.

Description

The Ca 'da Mosto is one of the few buildings with authentic Venetian- Byzantine buildings on the Grand Canal and represents an early example of a casa fondaco, that is a house in which accommodation and storage of a businessman were. Above the windows of the piano nobiles Relief plates are in the Byzantine style, called paterae. In the pre-Gothic Piano nobile another floor was set up in the 16th century. The top floor is from the 19th century. In the courtyard a staircase plant was granted.

History

The Family Since Mosto was not the builder of the palace, but had it from the mid-13th century to 1554. He came into the possession of the families Dolfin and Contarini. In this building, the famous navigator Alvise Da Mosto was allegedly born.

From 1661 to the early 19th century, Albergo Al Lion Bianco was rented here, that at that time the most famous hotel in Venice was also crowned heads and housed. Joseph II, who had an official accommodation rejected by the Republic, lived here in 1769 and 1775. Lodged in 1782, the Russian Crown Prince and later Tsar Paul I with his wife in the house.

After the fall of the Republic, the ownership was unclear and the palace fell into disrepair. Only in the 19th century was remembered back to his story, and there was a plaque for Alvise Da Mosto attached.

The state of this important building always gave cause for concern, but has the masonry of the water projectile especially in the right part of serious damage to. Today the palace is finally restored.