Palazzo Clary, Renaissance palace in Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy

Palazzo Clary is a late-Renaissance palace on the Zattere overlooking the Giudecca Canal in Dorsoduro. Its waterfront façade has a ground portal topped by two carved coats of arms, two piano nobili with Ionic columns and a stone balustrade bearing lion statuettes, and a simpler attic with square windows. Two rear wings enclose a walled garden opening onto the Rio di Ognissanti.

Built in the 17th century for a Venetian noble family, the palace was known as Palazzo Priuli-Bon. Around 1855 it was bought by Prince Edmund von Clary und Aldringen as a residence for his father-in-law Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont, and it was remodelled in late Renaissance style in the 19th century.

The palace takes its name from the Austrian princely family of Clary und Aldringen, who acquired it around 1855; Edmund von Clary und Aldringen bought it as a residence for his father-in-law Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont, a central figure of Austrian diplomacy. The Italian name Palazzo Clary-Ficquelmont records both families.

The palace faces the Giudecca Canal on the Fondamenta Zattere al Ponte Longo, next to Palazzo Giustinian Recanati. Its rear U-shaped wings enclose a walled garden with an arched water gate onto the Rio di Ognissanti, near the Chiesa di Ognissanti. The main entrance is a large rectangular portal topped by two carved coats of arms.

The palazzo housed the French consulate general from after World War II until the late 1990s. This diplomatic role connected it to European political life during a transformative era of modern history.