Eight Hotel Venezia

Picture a Venetian palazzo and you’d likely dream up Eight Hotel Venezia. Gondolas glide past its windows, gleaming parquet lines its floors and the sights of the city are just steps away. Even its cosiest studio bedrooms boast sumptuous wallpapers and slate bathrooms. While suites brim with antiques and original features from the palazzo’s glory days. The Eight Suite is the jewel in the hotel’s crown, with a frescoed ceiling and windows that open wide to reveal the campo Read more[SPLIT]Read lessin all its Renaissance elegance.

There’s great beauty in the details at Eight Venezia. From the stained glass window you can look up at from your marble bathtub. To the hand-painted cherubs that gaze down on you through the soft-focus light from Murano glass chandeliers. The soft tap of your shoes on the stone staircase as you come home from dinner. And the clink of your Martini glass on the monochrome marble of the bar.  

The hotel’s deliciously dark and moody restaurant is a perfect spot for an intimate dinner, or well-crafted cocktail. Outside, the treasures of Venice unspool before you. Follow your nose to Campo Santa Maria Formosa, with its white-façade church of the same name, where palazzos jostle for the title of ‘most beautiful’. Weave through narrow alleyways and barely-changed Gothic buildings to St Mark’s Square, and Ponte di Rialto. Return after your wanderings to a Negroni nightcap, and perfectly-made bed.