Palazzo delle Prigioni

Prison’s Palace, linked to Doge’s Palace by the famous Bridge of Sighs which overtakes Rio di Palazzo, was designed by the architect Antonio da Ponte, who resumed as from 1589 the construction started in 1563 by Giovanni Antonio Rusconi. Afterwards around 1614 Antonio and Tommaso Contino completed the building which partially supplied the prisons at Doge’s Palace. Many illustrious people were imprisoned into this historical building such as Giacomo Casanova who escaped from prison in the famous and reckless way we all remember.