Palazzo Contarini Fasan, Gothic palace at Grand Canal in San Marco, Venice, Italy.

Palazzo Contarini Fasan is a palace on the Grand Canal featuring three floors and a facade in the International Gothic style. The ground level displays rectangular windows, the first floor has three lancet windows with a balcony, and the level above contains two more lancet windows.

Built in the 15th century and owned by the Contarini family, the palace later became linked by legend to Desdemona of Shakespeare's Othello. One tradition holds that Nicola Contarini, a commander in the wars against the Turks in the 1500s, lived here; his dark complexion earned him the nickname "Moor", and his wife Palma Querini left him because of his jealousy. Another tradition names Admiral Cristoforo Moro, nicknamed "the Moor", who in 1515 married a daughter of Donato da Lezze.

Local residents associate this building with Shakespeare's Desdemona from Othello, calling it Casa di Desdemona in daily conversation. This literary connection has kept the palace alive in people's imagination across centuries.

The palace has no water-level entrance, so it is seen from the Grand Canal, across from the Santa Maria della Salute area where the whole facade shows. Vaporetto lines and water taxis pass on the canal; the left side is joined to the neighbouring building by an overpass with a Gothic single-light window.

The facade preserves fragments of 15th-century frescoes beneath the jagged cornice, showing traces of colored patterns and ornaments. Between the upper windows sits the Contarini family coat of arms, a rare personal mark on Venetian private buildings.