The older of the two Barbaro palaces is fourteenth century, the other, sixteenth.

They will have peculiar interest to anyone who has read _La Vie d'un Patricien de Venise au XVI Siecle_, by Yriarte, for that fascinating work deals with Marcantonio Barbaro, who married one of the Giustiniani and lived here.
Nothing of importance--a palace with red and gold posts and an antiquity store--before the next rio, the beautiful Rio del Santissimo o di Stefano; nor after this, until the calle and traghetto: merely two neglected houses, one with a fondamenta.

And then a pension arises, next to which is one of the most coveted abodes in the whole canal--the little alluring house and garden that belong to Prince Hohenlohe.

The majestic palace now before us is one of Sansovino's buildings, the Palazzo Corner della Ca Grande, now the prefecture of Venice.

Opposite it is the beautiful Dario palace and the Venier garden.