Palazzo Keller is located in one of the most fascinating and culturally rich areas of Venice, in the charming Calle del Pestrin in the San Marco district. This privileged location allows you to immerse yourself in the unique history and beauty of Venice, with some of the city’s main attractions within walking distance.

The San Marco district is the cultural heart of Venice, and the area around Calle del Pestrin is full of fascinating history and curiosities. At the time of the Serenissima the Pestrineri were the artisans who worked and sold milk and its derivatives.

In 1773 in Venice there were 29 shops and 9 closed places; for this reason many streets of the city took the name of Pestrin. In S. Maria Formosa, near Palazzo Morosini del Pestrin, built in the seventeenth century, there are the campiello, the calle, the court of Pestrin; near the Bragora, in Castello, there is a street of the same name. Also in the area of Santo Stefano there are the calle and the bridge of Pestrin; in fact in that area existed, since the fifteenth century, a place where milk was sold with a barn attached.
The artisans of the sector were part of one of the “Schole picole de Arti e Mistieri” dedicated to the “Arte dei Pestrineri”: the School of Saints Joseph and Matthias. The most numerous schools in Venice were those that brought together groups of artisans, depending on the profession.