page_title: Palazzo Ferro Fini
section_title: Palazzo Flangini Fini
hierarchical_section_title: Palazzo Ferro Fini / History / Palazzo Flangini Fini
caption_attribution_description: English&#x3a;&#32; Palace Flangini Fini Venice. Facade on Grand Canal by Alessandro Tremignon.Français&#x202f;&#x3a;&#32; Palais Flangini Fini à Venise. Façade sur le Grand Canal par Alessandro Tremignon.Italiano&#x202f;&#x3a;&#32; Palazzo Flangini Fini Venezia. Faciatta sul Canal Grande di Alessandro Tremignon Alessandro Tremignon.
context_page_description: The Palazzo Ferro Fini is a historical building in Venice, Italy. It was originally two buildings, the Palazzo Morosini Ferro and the Palazzo Flangini Fini, which were combined into one in the 1860s to create a luxury hotel, the New York. The hotel was occupied by troops in World War II. By 1970 the hotel was in decay, and the building was purchased by the Veneto region, which undertook extensive renovations and made it the seat of the regional council.
context_section_description: The Palazzo Fini  was started by Tommaso Flangini, a wealthy Greek tax lawyer from Corfu. In 1620 he rented a house on the Grand Canal owned by the Contarini family, who promised to renovate the building which was in dilapidated condition. In 1638, Flangini bought the building and its neighbor, razed them to the ground, and put up a new building completed in 1640. After Flangini's daughter died without heirs, the building was inherited by the Greek community of Venice, to be sold and the proceeds used to support young Greeks. In 1662, Jerome Fini bought the palace. He was also a wealthy tax lawyer, from a Greek family that had moved from Cyprus in the 16th century. Fini paid the large sum of 120,000 ducats for the palace and other real estate in the province.
  The Fini family contributed much in decorations, and restored the palace several times. The Palazzo Flangini Fini is generally attributed to Alessandro Tremignon, from around 1688. Tremignon did much work for the Fini family. However, it appears that Pietro Bettinelli did most of the work, and Tremignon was brought in at the end to finish the interior and facade. The facade is impressive, but is clearly asymmetric since it was derived from two earlier buildings, formerly owned by the Contarini and the Da Ponte families. All openings other than the rectangular windows of the two mezzanines have round arches and balconies, with marble keystones in the arches decorated with bold and expressive heads. The overall effect is simple and elegant.
  The interior was decorated with high quality stucco and with framed paintings by Antonio Zanchi, Luca da Reggio and Pietro Liberi. Many of the rooms had magnificent ceilings with beams decorated in gilt and polychrome motifs. Later, the palace fell into decay. The Fini family was impoverished after the fall of the Republic of Venice. In 1850 Bianca Zane Fini left her children the palace, now divided into apartments, some leased and some sold.
caption: Palazzo Flangini Fini
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