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Grand Canal Tour, part 5
Accademia to San Marco
The Grand Canal's grand finale doesn't disappoint. Continued from Part Four, here.
On the Left
Once under the Accademia bridge, narrow Campo San Vitale (San Vidal) opens up into the broad Campo Santo Stefano; bordering it, with Venice’s most enviable canal-front garden, is the Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, 15th-century Gothic palace prettified in the 1890s.
Across the narrow Rio dell’Orso, the Palazzo Barbaro was the home of the vain family who glorified themselves on the façade of Santa Maria Zobenigo (see below).
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Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls
Images by Abxbay, Claude Monet , Didier Descouens, Didier Descouens, Creative Commons License, Pedro Szekely, Stefano Remo, Zairon