Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti - a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, located near the Accademia Bridge and the Palazzo Barbaro. Since 1999, the year it hosts the Institute of Science, Literature and Art of the Veneto region and regularly hosts cultural events.

The palace was built in 1565, the year. In the 19th century, on the initiative of a number of illustrious owners, he was completely rebuilt in the Venetian Gothic style, with a special emphasis on the richly decorated windows.

The first reconstruction of the Palazzo Cavalli-Gussoni, as it was then called, were held after 1840, when its owner was a young Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Frederick. He intended to implement a number of projects aimed at strengthening the presence of the Habsburg dynasty on the Grand Canal, as in those years belonged to the territory of Venice Austria-Hungary. After the sudden death of the Archduke in 1847 the Palazzo was bought by Count Henri de Chambord, who requested further restoration architect Giambattista Meduna. Portrait of an architect with magnificent cathedral of Santa Maria della Salute in the background can be seen in the Palazzo Ducale in Modena.

In 1878, the year the baron Raimondo Franchetti, who married Sarah Louise de Rothschild, daughter of Anselm Rothschild of the most Viennese Rothschilds, bought the Palazzo Cavalli-Gussoni and gave him his name. He continued the reconstruction of the palace, for the hiring of an architect Camillo Boito, who built a big staircase. In 1922 the widow of Franchetti Palace sold a state-owned companies of the Veneto region.