Back Garden and Ground Floor

Querini Stampalia Foundation

DESCRIZIONE:
In 1949 the Presidential Council of Fondazione Querini Stampalia decided to start the restoration of some parts of the Palace. The director of the Foundation Manlio Dazzi commissioned Carlo Scarpa with the restoration of a part of the ground floor and the back garden, which were in very bad conditions.

The renovation works by Scarpa are based on a balanced combination of old and new elements, as well as on a great workmanship of the materials.
Water is the main character: it enters from the channel which the Palace overlooks through water gates along the inner walls. It is located in the garden, in a capacious many-leveled copper basin made of cement and mosaic and in a little channel with two labyrinths sculpted in alabaster and Istrian stone by the sides.