An anonymous buyer has acquired for 18 million euros the so-called “cursed palace” of Venice, Ca’ Dario, known not only for its imposing Gothic Renaissance architecture, but also for the superstitions surrounding the deaths and misfortunes that occurred within its walls.
Ca’ Dario had been for sale in a real estate agency since last spring until a week ago a mysterious buyer, whose identity remains strictly anonymouswithdrew the property from the sale, according to the newspaper this Thursday Il Corriere in its regional version of Veneto.
The palace, which remains one of the city’s most iconic structures and a symbol of doom in Venice, It has an approximate area of ​​1,000 square meters.eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a terrace overlooking the Grand Canal and a private garden.
These characteristics, together with its privileged location near the Basilica of Santa MarÃa de la Salud, make it a highly coveted luxury property, although Its history, marked by a series of misfortunes, makes many prefer to observe it from the outside considering it a cursed place.
The Ca’ Dario palace It was built between 1479 and 1490 by Giovanni Dariosecretary of the Venetian Senate, as a residence for his daughter. Since then, the Dario family was involved in a series of tragic circumstances that laid the foundations for superstition.
The first blow was murder of his son-in-law, Vincenzo Barbaroafter a financial setback, followed by the suicide of Giovanni’s daughter Mariettadevastated by the death of her husband, and culminating in the death of his grandson, Vincenzowho was killed in an attack in Greece.
These first tragedies were just the beginning of a long list of misfortunes that marked the history of the palace: merchants who went bankrupt, poets who died after falling ill and other owners who suffered fatal fates.
In the 1960s, the rock group manager The WhoChristopher ‘Kit’ Lambert, purchased the palace and moved to Venice, where he became dependent on drugs and ended his fortune and his career.
Years later, the bassist of the same group, John Entwistlespent a week’s vacation in Ca’ Dario, where died suddenly of a heart attackadding one more tragedy to the long list of fatal events.
One of the last and best-known owners of Ca’ Dario was the Italian magnate Raul Gardini, involved in the massive corruption scandal that shook Italy in the 1990s and ended with his suicide in 1993.