Palazzo Loredan Cini
Palazzo Loredan Cini takes shape from a merger: the former Palazzo Foscari-Loredan is combined with the adjacent Palazzo Grimani along the Grand Canal. The narrow Canal facade has no main entrance, while the northern side facing the Rio provides a single water door, linked to the nearby campo by a bridge. Its Renaissance appearance is marked by two poliforas—twin, arched openings that help define the building’s dignified rhythm. The site’s earliest chapter reaches back to the 14th–15th centuries, when a Foscari palace—also known as the Loredan palace—was built on land held by the Giustinian. In 1428 the Venetian Republic bought it for 6,500 ducats, later passing it through the hands of rulers including Francesco Sforza and then Doge Francesco Foscari. …
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