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Known locally as ca’ (short for casa) as well as palazzo, the marble, brick, and white limestone palaces range over 600 years from Venetian-Byzantine to Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical, but most of them are exotically 14th- and 15th-century Gothic, Venice’s “trademark” in architectural styles.
Take the Via Tribunali to the Franciscan church of San Lorenzo Maggiore, with its Baroque façade incorporating the 14th-century marble porch, which was added after the earthquake of 1731.
In the gardens, take in the bird’s-eye view from the cliff-edge temple built out of Italian marble.
Behind this hall, in the center of a stairway, is a ramp full of sculptured dragons carved from a single slab of marble weighing more than 200 tons.
Inside, see Schlüter’s Baroque marble pulpit (1703) and a late-Gothic fresco of the Dance of Death (1484) in the tower hall.