Ca' Farsetti

[1] It is located in the sestiere (district) of San Marco, and faces the Grand Canal, not far from the Ponte di Rialto.

The palace however suffered near destruction in a fire in 1524.:[2] Federigo Contarini, who bought it in 1440, added two further floors.

The lower floors are in Venetian-Byzantine style with a portico with Corinthian columns, similar to that of the neighbouring Ca' Loredan.

[citation needed] The piano nobile has fifteen arcades connected by a balustrade.

On 27 September 2014, the American film star George Clooney and the British human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin were officially married at Ca' Farsetti[3][4] by Clooney's friend Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome.