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The year's Venice carnival runs from February 14th - February 24 2009. If you enjoy it so much you decide to stay - we've found the perfect house for you (and Lord Bryon).

For sale for the first time through Sotheby's in over 75 years is the beautiful piano nobile apartment of the Palazzo Mocenigo on the Grand Canal in Venice, famous as the Venetian residence of the English Romantic poet Lord Byron.

The Palazzo Mocenigo, built around 1579 for the Doge Alvise Mocenigo, is of huge architectural importance. To the right of the Sala Rosa and also overlooking the Grand Canal is the Byron Room – a vast entertaining room with original 16th century beamed ceiling, green marmorino walls and a complete decorative marble floor incorporating the Mocenigo coat of arms. Above the fireplace is a stunning grey decorative stucco panel dominating the Grand Canal end. An original 19th century print of this room shows Byron seated at his desk gazing upward to the decorative frieze, lost in thought.....

The main camera/studio, overlooking the Grand Canal, has a frescoed ceiling of Guarana (1700) with mythological subjects, and Venetian terrazzo flooring in decorative style. An ornamental balcony overlooks the room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the main entrance lead three further bedrooms and bathrooms overlooking the rear gardens of the Palazzo. The master bedroom has a frescoed ceiling and is decorated with stucchi. The walls are covered with evocative 18th century silk and there is a decorative fireplace. The en suite bathroom dates from the 40s and is decorated from that period with green mosaic and marble.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two further bedrooms with bathrooms complete the accommodation on the main piano nobile floor. A separate staircase leads to a large laundry room on the mezzanine level and then to two bedrooms and a further bathroom on the upper floor.

This exceptional property incorporates Venetian decorative features of the highest level, is of huge historical and literary importance, and yet is also a comfortable home. It is hard to imagine a more desirable property in a more fabulous location. Byron chose well.

 

 

 

 

 

Source & Photo Credit:  www.venice-estates.com

 

 

 

 

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