Palazzo Coccina Giunti Foscarini Giovannelli

Palazzo Coccina Giunti Foscarini Giovannelli — marketed to travellers as Palazzo Giovanelli Gran Canal — is a Renaissance palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, and today the home of a boutique hotel brand of the same name. The building stands in the Sestiere of Santa Croce, between the church of San Stae and Ca' Pesaro, at the mouth of the Rio della Rioda, a position that gives its principal façade direct frontage on the Grand Canal. Its layered name records the aristocratic families who owned or occupied it over the centuries: the Coccina, who built it; the Giunti, into whose hands it passed; the Foscarini, who inherited it; and the Giovannelli, who rented it in the mid-eighteenth century. As a commercial brand, Palazzo Giovanelli Gran Canal is a hospitality operation rather than a manufacturer. The hotel occupies part of the historic palace, while other portions of the building have been divided into private apartments. Its room inventory is organised into categories that mix modern hotel tiers with references to the building's past: Signature Suite Mozart, Signature Suite Foscarini, a Suite with Grand Canal view, Garden/Inner Courtyard Suites, Premium Junior Suites with Grand Canal view, Junior Suites, Prestige rooms with side-canal views, Premier rooms facing the garden or courtyard, Comfort Deluxe rooms and Classic rooms. Dining and drinking are handled by the Bar "Do Grifoni", a breakfast room and the Restaurant ARMONICO. The property also sells curated Venetian experiences, among them visits connected with the history of Murano and Murano glass, and the art of lace on the island of Burano. The brand's positioning is built on heritage, location and intimacy rather than scale. Its own communications emphasise the palace's centuries of history, its Grand Canal frontage and its setting in the historic S. Croce quarter at San Stae, described as one of the few areas where the uniqueness of Venice can still be felt. The website is published in French, English, German and Italian, indicating a European and international leisure clientele. Because the evidence available describes the building and the hotel's own marketing rather than corporate ownership, the operating company behind the hotel is not identified here; the palazzo itself remains a landmark of Venetian architecture, with a four-storey façade, a large round-arched water portal, a central Venetian window with balcony on the piano nobile, and a rear façade decorated with mythological frescoes.

The palace was built in the mid-sixteenth century in Renaissance style for the Coccina family, from whom the first element of its long name derives. It soon afterwards passed into the ownership of Tommaso Giunti, who came from Florence. Giunti had two daughters, whom he married to a pair of brothers, Nicolò and Renier Foscarini, and he left his properties, including the palace, to the Foscarini family. The building thus acquired the second and third parts of its composite name. The large and handsome palace frequently hosted illustrious guests of the lagoon city. In 1709 Sebastiano Foscarini, then Procurator of San Marco, entertained King Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway there and held a lavish celebration in his honour. In 1755 the palace was rented to the Giovannelli, whose name completes the modern designation. Over the following centuries the building's residential role changed: today part of the palace serves as a hotel, while another part has been divided into condominium apartments. Architecturally, the four-storey building presents a façade to the Grand Canal that is made asymmetrical by an annex on the left side. In essence the palace consists of two building sections, each internally symmetrical. Both sections have a ground floor, a mezzanine above it, a main floor and a mezzanine beneath the roof, and the elements of the plastered, white-painted façade correspond to one another across the storeys. The larger right-hand section has at its centre on the ground floor a large round-arched portal to the water, flanked by two rectangular windows and two pairs of square windows. In the mezzanine above, three rectangular windows on each side flank the portal. The main floor has at its centre a large Venetian window with a projecting balcony, flanked on both sides by two pairs of single round-arched windows, also with projecting balconies. The mezzanine under the roof shows, above the Venetian window of the main floor, a rectangular quadruple window flanked by two pairs of single rectangular windows. All these windows are supported by balustrades of half-columns, and the façade is topped by a crenellated eaves line. The smaller left-hand section has two single windows per storey, set as far as possible from the central axis: simple rectangular windows on the ground floor and the mezzanine above it, round-arched windows with projecting balconies on the main floor, and rectangular windows with half-column balustrades in the mezzanine under the roof. A wooden terrace is built centrally on the roof of the left section. The asymmetrical side façade toward the Rio della Rioda and the church of San Stae is designed similarly to the main façade, and the rear façade is decorated with mythological frescoes. In its present commercial form, the property trades as Palazzo Giovanelli Gran Canal, a hotel whose own communications describe the palace as overlooking the banks of the Grand Canal between the church of San Stae and Ca' Pesaro and as a witness to several centuries of history. The hotel's location is given as the historic quarter of S. Croce at San Stae, described as one of the few places where the uniqueness of Venice can still be breathed. Its website is offered in French, English, German and Italian.

• 1755

  The palace is rented to the Giovannelli family.

• 1709

  Sebastiano Foscarini, Procurator of San Marco, hosts King Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway with a lavish celebration.

• 1550

  The Renaissance palace is built in the mid-sixteenth century for the Coccina family.

• The palace passes to Tommaso Giunti of Florence, who later leaves it to the Foscarini family.

• Part of the palace is converted to hotel use while another part is divided into condominium apartments.

Heritage luxury hospitality in a Renaissance palazzo directly on Venice's Grand Canal, sold on history, location and intimacy.

• Signature Suite Mozart

• Signature Suite Foscarini

• Suite with Grand Canal view

• Garden/Inner Courtyard Suite

• Premium Junior Suite with Grand Canal view

• Junior Suite with Garden/Inner Courtyard view

• Prestige Room with side canal view

• Premier Room with Garden/Inner Courtyard view

• Comfort Deluxe Room with Garden/Inner Courtyard view

• Classic Room with Garden/Inner Courtyard view

• Restaurant ARMONICO

• Bar "Do Grifoni"

• Breakfast room

1. 1Palazzo Giovanelli Gran Canal — official websitehotelpalazzogiovanelli.com
2. 2L'histoire de Murano et du verre de Murano — Palazzo Giovanelli Gran Canalhotelpalazzogiovanelli.com
3. 3Palazzo Coccina Giunti Foscarini Giovannelli — Wikidatawikidata.org
4. 4Palazzo Coccina Giunti Foscarini Giovannelli — Wikipedia (German)de.wikipedia.org