Venetian House, Gothic residential monument in Tartinijev Square, Piran, Slovenia.

The Venetian House, known locally as Benečanka, stands at the northeast corner of Tartinijev trg where it meets Ulica IX. korpusa. Built on just over 70 m², it has three ornamented facade sides, a Gothic corner balcony, and a stone plaque between the second-floor windows showing a lion holding the motto "Lasa pur dir" and a coat of arms with the initial B.

Built in the first half of the 15th century on just over 70 m² for the wealthy Del Bello family of Piran, the house appears in a painting by Jacopo Tintoretto. A sketch by architect Peter von Nobile from 1815 shows it on Tartini Square. The rear facade was demolished and rebuilt in the 1950s, and the facade was restored in 2016 and 2019.

The inscription "Lasa pur dir" ("Let them talk") is in the Venetian dialect, not Latin, and sits beneath a heraldic lion holding it between its paws, with a coat of arms bearing the initial B. According to local legend, a Piran girl loved a wealthy Venetian merchant; to mock the gossips who tormented her during his absences, he had the plaque set on the house where they met.

The house stands at the northern edge of Tartinijev trg, at the corner with Ulica IX. korpusa 2, where the street meets the square. The ground floor holds a shop and the upper floor a hotel, so the facade is seen from the square and the side street. The upper-storey facade keeps its 15th-century form; the interior has been repeatedly altered.

The plaque between the second-floor windows carries a heraldic lion holding the motto "Lasa pur dir" in Venetian, not Latin, above a coat of arms with the initial B of the Del Bello family. The house takes its nickname from this inscription.