Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo

Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo

Year

1499

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Type

building

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Hidden in a tiny courtyard near Campo Manin, this palazzo's fame rests on its extraordinary external spiral staircase: a helicoidal tower of superimposed arched loggias rising five stories. The "bovolo" (snail in Venetian dialect) fuses lat …

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