Nor are they of much interest.

Briefly they are the Old Procuratie, which forms the side on which the clock is, the Atrio or Nuova Fabbrica opposite S.Mark's, and the New Procuratie on the Campanile side.

The Old Procuratie, whose main row of windows I once counted, making either a hundred or a hundred and one, is now offices and, above, residences.

Here once abode the nine procurators of Venice who, under the Doge, ruled the city.
The New Procuratie is now the Royal Palace, and you may see the royal lackeys conversing with the sentinels in the doorway by Florian's.

It is the finer building: over the arches it has good sprawling Michael-Angelesque figures, noble lions' heads, and massive ornamentations.
I don't know for certain, but I should guess that the Royal Palace in Venice is the only abode of a European King that has shops underneath it.