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They are
constituted by a long building that skirts the southern
side of St. Mark's Square; they were built for replacing
the Old ones, as residence of St. Mark's Attorneys. The
works began in 1582, with the intervention of Vincent
Scamozzi and they finished toward the half of the
seventeenth century with Baldassarre Longhena. During the
napoleonic period, the New Procuratie were assigned to
Royal Palace, while today they house the Correr Museum,
the Museum of the Risorgimento, the Archaeological Museum
and some offices: the Management of the Civic Museums,
the Library of the Correr Museum. Under the arcades there
is the famous Florian Caffè dating back to the
eighteenth century and renovated in the nineteenth
century, one of the places of meeting more celebrated and
famous places of meeting in Venice. |
