Discover Palazzo Soranzo

The two wings of Palazzo Soranzo were built roughly a century apart, yet share a single, unified facade and matching stone color. The older, mid-14th-century wing sits at one end, with two asymmetrical, round-topped portals typical of the period before Venetian Gothic took hold. The newer wing, from the 15th century, has just one portal, set beside a small lunette window, and is easy to pick out by its different fenestration.

Both wings carry the pointed, ogee-topped windows that define Venetian Gothic architecture, rather than the rounded arches of earlier Byzantine-influenced buildings. The older wing's two piano nobile floors each have a quadruple window in a carved marble frame, decorated with reliefs of fauns and other mythological figures. The newer wing's main floor carries a wider, eight-part window with its own marble tracery, while the floor above echoes the four-part windows of the older half.

Little survives of the original interiors. Furnishings and works of art were once recorded inside, including a work attributed to Giorgione, but most of this has since been lost or dispersed.