Palazzo Giustinian Businello, Gothic palace along Grand Canal in San Polo, Italy.

Palazzo Giustinian Businello sits along the Grand Canal with a facade of triple arcades and large multi-opening windows topped by balustrades on each noble floor. The building combines different architectural phases, with lower sections keeping older forms while upper stories were added during later renovations.

Commissioned in the 13th century by the Morosini family, the palace passed to the Giustiniani and then, in the 18th century, to the Businello, who gave it its second name. In the 19th century it housed the dancer Maria Taglioni. The facade retains vestiges of the Veneto-Byzantine casa fondaco despite alterations made between the 15th and 19th centuries.

The name Businello comes from the family that owned the palace in the 18th century, after the Morosini who commissioned it and the Giustiniani who followed. In the 19th century it housed Maria Taglioni, the ballerina known across Europe for her performances and her public life.

You can view the palace from two vantage points: from the Grand Canal itself or from the Fondamenta de Ca'Businello, where a Byzantine-style portico remains partially visible. The water offers the clearest view of the entire facade.

The dancer Maria Taglioni lived here in the 19th century; she was celebrated across Europe and her name is also tied to the Paris Opera's ballet of 1832. The palace had passed to the Businello family in the 18th century, which gave it its second name.