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Hotel Locanda Sturion
Description
"Antica Locanda Sturion" is a three-star hotel located in the city's historic center, about 10 minute walking distance from Saint Mark's square. Overlooking the Grand Canal and the Rialto Bridge, it is just a few steps' from Rialto's picturesque morning market.
The hotel welcomes its guests to elegant rooms decorated in classic Venetian style, some overlooking the narrow street Calle del Sturion, some the venitian rooftops and two large family rooms in the front overlooking the Grand Canal.
The rooms are decorated in 18th century Venetian style, complete with damask upholstery and dressing tables. The rooms all come equipped with private bathrooms with bathtubs and/or showers, air conditioning, direct telephones, satellite TVs, minibars, hairdryers, safes, coffee/tea makers and complimentary cookies.
The decor in every room has been created with the greatest care to recall a classic 18th century Venetian bedroom
Hotel Sturion is first heard of towards the end of the 13th century, where above the arch at Calle dello Sturion and overlooking the Grand Canal was the House with the same name which the Doge of Venice had specifically built to suit the comfort of foreign merchants taking their goods to the Market of Rialto.
Refurbished in the 14th century, the hotel reached the peak of its renown in the 15th century when celebrated navigators and traders and even seven Ambassadors from Friuli were among its guests.
In 1494, Vittore Carpaccio in his painting "The Miracle of the Cross", which can be seen at the Academy.
The inn was continually mentioned in a variety of historical texts through the end of the 18th century. It then became the private home of a wealthy Venetian family. In the 1950s, the inn resurfaced in the same place and with the same foundations that had seen seven hundred years of the "Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia"'s history.
Address1
Calle del Sturion - San Polo 679
Town Or City
Venezia
Region
Veneto
Postcode
30125
Tel
39 041 5236243
Fax
39 041 5228378
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