Palazzo Balbi
Palazzo Balbi is a palace on the Canal Grande, Venice, northern Italy. It is included in the sestiere 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Building
- Description: Palace on the Canal Grande, Dorsoduro, Venice
- Also known as: “Palazzo Balbi, Venice”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Palazzo Grassi and Gallerie dell’Accademia.
Palazzo Grassi
Museum
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Palazzo Grassi is a building in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice, between the Palazzo Moro Lin and the campo San Samuele. Palazzo Grassi is situated 150 metres southeast of Palazzo Balbi.
Gallerie dell’Accademia
Museum
Photo: Archaeodontosaurus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. A few weeks every six years, it houses the Leonardo da Vinci drawing The Vitruvian Man. Gallerie dell’Accademia is situated 410 metres south of Palazzo Balbi.
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
Church
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The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, commonly abbreviated to the Frari, is a church located in the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district of Venice, Italy. Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is situated 210 metres north of Palazzo Balbi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dorsoduro and San Polo.
Dorsoduro
Photo: Janericloebe, Public domain.
Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy. Dorsoduro includes the highest land areas of the city and also Giudecca island and Isola Sacca Fisola.
San Polo
Santa Croce
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
Santa Croce is one of the six sestieri of Venice, occupying the northwest part of the main islands. The district includes the Piazzale Roma, home to Venice's bus station and car parks, and around which is the only area of the city in which cars can travel.
Palazzo Balbi
- Category: palace
- Location: Venice, Metropolitan Venice, Veneto, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45.435° or 45° 26′ 6″ northLongitude
12.32705° or 12° 19′ 37″ eastOpen location code
8FQJC8PG+2ROpenStreetMap ID
way 138841411OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q3889580
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Spanish—“Palazzo Balbi” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պալացո Բալբի”
- Armenian: “Պալացցո Բալբի”
- Catalan: “Palau Balbi”
- Dutch: “Palazzo Balbi”
- French: “palais Balbi”
- French: “Palais Balbi”
- German: “Palazzo Balbi”
- Italian: “Palazzo Balbi (Dorsoduro)”
- Italian: “Palazzo Balbi”
- Russian: “Палаццо Бальби”
- Slovenian: “palača Balbi”
- Slovenian: “Palazzo Balbi”
- Spanish: “Palacio Balbi”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Palazzo Balbi”. Photo: Archaeodontosaurus, CC BY-SA 3.0.