Past guests to the palace included important historic figures such as Tsar Paul I of Russia, Joséphine de Beauharnais and Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.
The interior rooms were decorated by Baroque artists such as Tiepolo, Jacopo Guarana, Gaspare Diziani and Giuseppe Angeli.
The palace once housed, among other things, Paolo Veronese's monumental painting The Family of Darius before Alexander, which was viewed here by Goethe in 1786 (diary entry from October 8 of that year) and acquired by the National Gallery, London, in 1857, where it now hangs.
The palace is said to have housed a ceiling painting called The Chariots of Aurora by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675–1741), which was restored and installed in the Library of George Vanderbilt's Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina, in the United States.
It hosts an annual masquerade ball Il Ballo del Doge, held during the Carnival period.