Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti was designed in Gothic architecture in 1565. It is next door to the wooden structured bridge - Ponte dell'Accademia) on th
Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti was designed in Gothic architecture in 1565. It is next door to the wooden structured bridge - Ponte dell'Accademia) on the Grand Canal of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Since 1999 it has been the seat of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and frequently holds cultural events In 1840, it was modernised yet retaining its Gothic style when the young Archduke Frederick Ferdinand of Austria (1821–1847) acquired the property. In 1878, Baron Raimondo Franchetti (1829–1905),[3] husband of Sarah Luisa de Rothschild (1834–1924) and, daughter of Anselm Salomon Rothschild of the Vienna Rothschilds, bought the palazzo and commissioned further works by architect Camillo Boito, In September 1922, it was sold to the Istituto Federale di Credito per il Risorgimento delle Venezie (Federal Credit Institute for the Risorgimento of Venice) by Franchetti's widow.
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