Hotel Metropole
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‘Metropole Hotel’Just along the waterfront from St Mark's Square, where the Grand Canal meets the Lagoon, let your gondola glide to the landing stage of the wonderful Metropole Hotel. On the site of an orphanage church where Vivaldi once composed and performed, stands this beautiful, baroque hotel replete with gilded chandeliers, clocks, mirrors and bronze cherubs. A friendly, family-run hotel, the Metropole is like a museum of rare artefacts, boasting an eclectic collection of musical instruments, fans, corkscrews and Italy's largest collection of crucifixes. Description supplied by owner. ‘Hotel Metropole’This charming hotel has a lot of history – Vivaldi composed his Four Seasons in the breakfast room (he was choirmaster in a neighbouring church), and babies were changed on the breakfast room table, as the place was once an orphanage. A hotel for many years now, they have recently applied a thick veneer of chic, with glossy black brochures and a staff dressed like undertakers. The atmosphere of the real Venice, however, has been preserved, and the hotel has a lot more character than, say, the neighbouring Londra Palace. In particular, the public rooms make you pleased to come back here after a hard slog against the tide of tourists, and there is a delightful garden out back – in fact rooms overlooking this may be preferred by some for their peace and quiet: while the views of San Giorgio across the lagoon are worth a lot, the windows are less well sound proofed than, say, the Danieli’s. Rooms on the garden and side canal sides are also larger – the nine lagoon view doubles are small. Suites have no lagoon views. However, if you do opt for views, choose the second floor rooms with the bigger windows.
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