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Today, the palace is a fascinating museum, featuring Tintoretto's Paradiso in the Sala di Maggior Consiglio -- one of the largest paintings on canvas ever produced in Venice -- and other Renaissance masterpieces. The dark and dismal prison cells are reached by crossing the infamous "Bridge of Sighs"; the name comes from the sighs of the unfortunate prisoners who were confined here. In the 18th Century, "Latin Lover" Giacomo Casanova made a daring escape from his prison cell while, 100 years later, author Charles Dickens witnessed a midnight strangling after which the body was dumped into the waters of the canal below.
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