Ca' Correr and the Royal Apartments

A long restoration has salvaged the magnificence of decorative frescoes, stucco and marbles, floors and furnishings of the rooms which housed Sissi during her stay in Venice in 1856, which was mentioned by the famous film shot in the  80’s which saw starring Romy Schneider, and in subsequent visits. Sissi resided in the beautiful apartments of the Royal Palace, called the Napoleonic wing Procuratie Nuove in St. Mark's square, since it strongly desired during the renewal of European palaces for Napoleon and along the years destined to House Habsburg Emperors and Royal Highnesses of Savoy who established their Venetian residence.
The halls are only a part of a wider restoration that will be continued in the other 14 rooms, where there are secret passages that join one floor to another. The restored concerns precisely the apartments where Sissi had her life as Empress between official meetings and moments of rest.
The rooms vary depending on the time of day, not only for the effect of light on stucco and gilt decorations, but also for the beautiful red and gold wallpapers, donated by Rubelli modeled on the antique ones. The decor was reconstructed according to the elements marked in the inventory kept in the archives. Some pieces are original, others will copy the template. A rare painting that we know whereabouts in the chapel of the Royal Palace and now sits in the room where the Princess slept, is a deposition by Carletto Cagliari, son of Paolo Veronese, it was painted for a church in  Belluno. Birds, classical scenes and flowers decorate the ceilings leaving to  imagination the luxury and splendour in which lived the unhappy but beloved Princess Sissi unable to reconcile the court life with that of her freer and rebellious nature.
The restoration of the Royal apartments of State-owned property, has been promoted and supported by the Comité Français pour la Sauvegarde de Venise, under coordination of the regional direction for the “ Beni culturali e paesaggistici del Veneto” and the  Civic Venetian museums foundation”  that will manage the halls inserting them firmly on the path to Correr Museum visit.