Palace & château
Palazzo Balbi
🇮🇹 Italy · 16th century
Palazzo Balbi is a palace on the Canal Grande, Venice, northern Italy. It is included in the sestiere (quarter) of Dorsoduro, to the right of Ca' Foscari. Currently it is the seat of the President of the Veneto region and of the regional council.
It was built from 1582, under design by Alessandro Vittoria as the residence of the Venetian patrician family of the Balbi. In the 19th century it was acquired by Michelangelo Guggenheim and later by the Adriatic Electric Society. It became a property of the Veneto region in 1971.
Text adapted from “Palazzo Balbi, Venice” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palazzo Balbi ranks #2,431 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #209 of the 288 mapped in Italy. Founded 1582, it is older than 39% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 307 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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