| | Facilities within the Property |
 Living room
A warm light filters through the hall's windows overlooking the Canal Grande, the precious tapestry and the magnificent Palladian floors provide a perfect setting for leisure time during which one can watch the gondolas go by or simply sit next to the fireplace sipping an aperitif. |
Breakfast room
The intimate breakfast hall, with its delicately coloured boiserie and tapestry, is a silent corner from which guests can enjoy the view of the Canal Grande and of buildings across from.
Bar
The cosy bar by the water offers a wide selection of classic or innovative cocktails. It is the perfect palce for unwinding after a hard day of sightseeing! |
| Property Facilities Summary: |  Bar | Boat Hire | | Car Rental (with Driver) | Child Friendly | | Concierge Service | Dry Cleaning | | Fax Machine | Fax Service | | Guest Laundry | Guided Tours | | Internet Connection | Lift | | Luggage Storage | Personal Shopper Service | | Photocopier | Porter Service | | Private Boat Tours | Private City Tours | | Private Transfer To / From City | Private Transfer To/From Airport | | Private Transfer To/From Bus Station | Private Transfer To/From Rail Station | | Public Garage | Shoe Shine Service | | Small Dogs Welcome | Small Pets Welcome | | Ticket Reservation Service | Wake Up Service | | Wi-Fi | | | |
 Venice has always been a cosmopolitan city, a meeting point between the east and the west, a crossroads of culture and goods, city of opposites and difficult equilibrium, but also an enchantress and fascinating, a place suspended between land and sea, between present and past. Venice is a unique city in the world for its history, and also for its urban development, determined by particular historical and environmental conditions, which has given life to a true and proper maze of facades, bridges and canals, in which water and light are essential components. We propose only one of the many possible itineraries to discover the most famous places of Venice, but at the same time invite you to follow our intuition and tastes in this journey. Because Venice is made so, to go around the narrow streets and canals is to set off for new discoveries and enchantments. Situated in S.Marco area, the hotel offers its guests a prime location. These are some suggestions about what you can see during your stay in Venice:
The Grand Canal and Ca' d'Oro
The Grand Canal has always been the main artery for city traffic. Nowadays, vaporetti, boats with goods, and gondolas have taken the place of the great transport ships and gondolas of yesterday. During the great traditional festivals, like the famous Historical Regatta at the beginning of September, the Canal Grande returns to its past with the sumptuous parades of decorated boats. If in the beginning the richest Venetian merchants built their houses on the Grand Canal for practical necessity, it soon became the principal space for display and to own a house along the waterway became a symbol of wealth and prestige. Noble families and the richest merchants competed in the building of palaces and the decoration of their facades: the result is a great richness and variety of styles and typologies of buildings. Almost a thousand years of architecture is represented along its banks, from the Veneto-Byzantine style of the XIIth century, until the recent constructions of the 1950s, with the particular presence of late gothic palaces of the fifteenth century. Among these the Ca' d'Oro, one of the most beautiful Venetian gothic buildings, assumes a particular importance. The palace stands majestically on the Grand Canal a short distance from the Rialto Bridge. Commissioned by the rich patrician Mario Contarini, who personally oversaw the building, the palace was built in the first decades of the fifteenth century. The name Ca' d'Oro (the golden house) was used immediately to designate the elaborate palace whose facade was decorated with gold plating, polychrome marble, crenellation and meticulously carved stone. The interiors and above all the courtyard are of great architectural interest. The courtyard opens with a gothic gate where a covered stairway leads to the first floor. The palace houses the Galleria Franchetti, one of the most important art collections of the city.
St. Mark's Square (Piazza San Marco)
Piazza S. Marco, the living room of the world as the Venetians like to define it, has always been the vital centre of the city. The cultural, political and civil centre in the past, today it is becoming even more a center of monuments, except for the Basilica of S. Marco which continues to be the religious reference point of the city. But what links the past with the present in the area Marciana is the uniqueness and the surrounding monuments. Few places in the world can boast such quantity and variety of architectural and artistic masterpieces in such a small area. The area appears as a unified complex, although its present form is the result of eight centuries of building, thanks to the unifying element represented by the ground floor portico, which runs practically uninterrupted and, in effect, occupies three sides of the piazza, echoing the arches of the basilica's façade. In the Palazzo Ducale today one can still visit the Doge's rooms or the great hall of the Venetian judiciary and government that led the most glorious of Italian republics until the beginning of the nineteenth century. Across the famous Bridge of Sighs one can visit the State Prisons, the so-called Piombi, and see the cells of the condemned. La Basilica of San Marco, built following the model of the great Byzantine churches of Constantinopole, appears with vaults and cupolas decorated with a golden mosaic and admirably worked precious thirteenth century pavements. In the Sansoviniana Library one can visit the magnificent rooms of the old library decorated by the most important artists of the sixteenth century Veneto school. Finally, on the Piazza there is the Correr Museum, with interesting temporary exhibitions and a very important collection of art works, and the Archeological Museum, where important finds from the oldest ancient sites are conserved. From the imposing bell tower of San Marco, which can be visited all throughout the year, one can enjoy the most beautiful panorama of Venice. |
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