Palazzo Zaguri, Gothic palace in San Marco, Venice, Italy.
Palazzo Zaguri is a 14th-century Gothic palace closing the east side of Campo San Maurizio in Venice's San Marco district. It has two Gothic facades: the front one, with a five-light window and a pointed-arch portal, faces the campo; the rear one, on Fondamenta Corner Zaguri, keeps the remains of a cavana and a first-floor four-light window framed by a chequered frieze and flanked by two single windows.
The Pasqualini, a Milanese family enriched by the silk trade, built the palace between the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1521 Antonio Pasqualini sold it for 5,400 ducats to Alvise Priuli; in 1565 part passed to Vincenzo Pellegrini and then to the Zaguri, who owned the whole building by 1740. The last male Zaguri died in 1810, and the palace later passed to the Braganze and then to the city of Venice, which sold it in 2007.
The facade of Palazzo Zaguri still carries heraldic symbols tied to its former owners. Inside the main rooms, finely crafted stucco frames speak to the wealth of the families who once lived there.
The palace is now privately owned and operates as a hotel, so the interior is not open as a public exhibition space. Visitors see the two Gothic facades from Campo San Maurizio and from the Fondamenta Corner Zaguri along the Rio San Maurizio Malatin. The campo side closes the square to the east, next to the bridge of the same name.
The Pasqualini coat of arms, a letter P above three bars, is still visible on the facade, and another family emblem survives on the ring of the well in the inner courtyard. Recent work uncovered intact parts of a well recorded on 16th-century maps.
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