It was in the Farsetti that Canova acquired his earliest knowledge of sculpture, for he was allowed as a boy to copy the casts collected there.
Another calle, the Cavalli, and then a comfortable-looking house with a roof garden and green and yellow posts, opposite which the fondamenta comes to an end.

Fenimore Cooper, the novelist of the Red Man, made this palace his home for a while.

The pretty little Palazzo Valmarana comes next, and then the gigantic, sombre Grimani with its stone as dark as a Bath or Bloomsbury mansion, which now is Venice's Court of Appeal.

The architect was the famous Michele Sammicheli who also designed the Lido's forts.

Then the Rio di S.Luca and the Palazzo Contarini, with rich blue posts with white rings, very striking, and two reliefs of horses on the facade.