The Venetian Terrazzo is a type of flooring typical of the Venetian and Triveneto area.
The flooring is composed of granulated marble and of stones with a diameter up to 40 mm and as a binder it has lime cobblestone (or cement) mixed with fragments of earthenware or brick mixed with lime and sand with a diameter up to 5 mm.
The types of construction of the floor vary from fine grain to medium grain with the profiling of color variations between field and band. In the nineteenth century, it was used the coarser grain with the profiling with irregular tesserae. Later, at the beginning of the twentieth century, it began to use the finest grain, profiling with regular tesserae and the insertion of Art Nouveau decorations.
The hydraulic lime is still used today as a binder, although, for economic reasons, in the laying stage are often used Portland cements with controlled shrinkage, which shorten the time for obtaining the final result.
