Ca’ Scarpa

The building that we see today took shape in the second half of the 16^th century, inside a large complex that brings together the most ancient benedictine monastery of Ognissanti and the monastery of Santa Maria Nova, along with the church of the same name. During the Napoleonic era, this balance was disrupted, when the suppression of religious orders led to the transformation of the complex: first into a military hospital, and later into a barracks. The church underwent through various functional modifications with the construction of floors and internal partitions, taking on the configuration that we see today also when, with the Kingdom of Italy, it served as barracks, and was not damaged by bombs in the First and Second World Wars.

The post-war era led to the project of adaptation of the complex into the Office of the Intendenza di Finanza. Later, in the Eighties, the church had all its superstructures from the 19^th and 20^th centuries removed, recovering its original masonry structure, to house the three-storey metal structure of a new “printed materials depot”, more functional and stable than the previous one.

In 2010, following the relocation of the Intendenza di Finanza offices, the space remained abandoned until it was acquired in 2018 by Edizione Property. The former Church of Santa Maria Nova is the first to be restored among the buildings in the complex and returned to the city under the name of Ca’ Scarpa, after a restoration project by architect Tobia Scarpa, who chose to preserve and engage with the recent iron structure located inside the church.