As the Italian press writes, after a long effort a buyer has reportedly been found for the historic building “Ca’ Dario”, also known as its “cursed palace”.
It is located on the Grand Canal of Galinotati and its negative reputation is due to the misfortunes that befell the former owners and prospective buyers.
Ca’ Dario’s dark past
One of its former owners, the stockbroker Raul Gardini, committed suicide during the “Clean Hands” judicial inquiry in 1993.
The building was built in the fifteenth century for a wealthy notary who worked on behalf of the doges. According to popular tradition, among others, an Armenian merchant who bought it about two hundred years ago went bankrupt, while the American tycoon Charles Briggs, after the end of the First World War, was forced to sell the mansion and leave Venice, because that he was not allowed to live his personal life freely.
Also in 1964, the famous Italian tenor Mario Del Monaco, while in negotiations to buy Ca’ Dario, was seriously injured in a car accident and soon after gave up all artistic activity. Finally, in 1970, Count Filippo Giordano delle Lance died in the living room of the palace, when his lover violently hit him on the head with a precious silver vase.
It has not been known the amount for which the property was sold, nor who is its new owner.
Initially, eighteen million euros had been requested from a real estate agency in Venice. The mansion “Ca’ Dario” has a total area of one thousand square meters, with eight bedrooms and as many toilets, a roof terrace and an inner courtyard of one hundred and seventy square meters.
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