Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti

The current exhibition of Campigli is beautiful, but the Palazzo is an interesting (albeit a little out of style in Venice) place. The garden with views of the grand canal is a high point.

Wonderful palace , often used for art exhibitions, where you can see the canal grande and the academy bridge

Arguably, one of the most undervalued sights of Venice.. curated exhibitions in the palace interiors.. a real competitor to Palazzo Grassi located a few minutes away

Nice and peaceful palace and a noteworthy exhibition with a very knowledgeable guide. Also a great little garden with a superb view on the canal grande. A top visit !

Beautiful Venetian palazzo with external courtyard and fine medieval details. The grand stair with soaring windows on three sides is decorated with intricate stucco and marble works. Enjoyed both the Memphis exhibit on post modern Furniture design movement, and the Gilded Cage by Ai WeiWei: a powerful reflective piece on the perception of societal systems and and structure.

This place is a SCAM!!! Avoid like the plague! There are 2 tiny exhibitions - like six small rooms - that take less than 5 minutes to walk through and for this they charge 12 Euro. I wanted to see the Etruscan art upstairs in the first place and they then told me it would be another 12 Euro to see what looked like a handful of statues. Total ripoff tourist trap in a run down Palazzo. I'll be calling Visa to dispute the charge. These are the sorts of cons that give Italy such a bad name!

Arriving at the beautiful Accademia Bridge, one cannot fail to admire the beautiful Franchetti Palace. Its architecture is magnificent. The Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti is an impressive neo-Gothic building at the foot of the Accademia bridge and extends towards Campo Santo Stefano. How it is located right next to the Grand Canal with its beauty and elegance arouses admiration in us. The palace was built in 1565, and by the mid-19th century it was used as the residence of many famous Venetian families such as, Marcello, Gussoni and Cavalli. After the Napoleonic Wars, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy gained the territories of Venice. Thus in 1840 the young Archduke of Austria Frederick Ferdinand was given the estate to manage and began a complex modernization project. Palazzo Cavalli-Gussoni thus divided among his successors and embarked on a complex modernization project aimed at provide a more prominent Habsburg presence here along the Grand Canal. After the sudden death of the Austrian Archduke in 1847, the palazzo was bought by Prince Henry, Count of Chambord, who was disputedly King of France from 2 to 9 August 1830 as Henry V, although he was never officially proclaimed as such. Afterwards, he was the Legitimist pretender to the throne of France. He hired the famous master Giambattista Meduna for the restoration work of the Palace. In 1878 Baron Raimondo Franchetti, who had married Sarah Luisa de Rothschild, daughter of Anselm Salomon Rothschild of the Vienna Rothschilds, bought the palazzo and commissioned further works by architect Camillo Boito, who constructed the beautiful grand staircase. In September 1922 it was sold to the Istituto Federale di Credito per il Risorgimento delle Venezie by Franchetti's widow. Palazzo Cavalli- Franchetti currently uses the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti to hold cultural events.

Beautiful place and an interesting exhibition. You can book a spot in a guided tour by calling them, the tours are daily in italian (not sure if English option is available). The guide (sadly forgot lady's name) was very knowledgeable and engaging.