Where to Stay in Venice
A city built on water — impossible, improbable, and unmissable
Gondola canals, Byzantine basilicas, Carnival masks, cicchetti bars, and the most romantic city on earth slowly sinking into the Adriatic.
Travel Guide
Venice is a city that shouldn't exist and somehow does — 118 islands connected by 400 bridges and 170 canals, built on wooden piles driven into a lagoon by refugees in the 5th century. For a thousand years it was the most powerful trading empire in the Mediterranean. What it left behind is incomparable: the Basilica di San Marco with its Byzantine gold mosaics, the Doge's Palace with its Bridge of Sighs, the Grand Canal lined with Gothic and Renaissance palazzi, and a labyrinth of calle (alleys) where getting lost is the entire point. Venice floods (acqua alta) in November and December, swells with 30 million tourists annually, and costs more than almost anywhere in Italy — but it rewards those who stay past day one and venture beyond San Marco into Dorsoduro, Cannaregio, and the islands of Burano and Torcello.
Best Neighborhoods
San Marco — Iconic & Unmissable
300+ hotels · Basilica di San Marco, Doge's Palace, Bridge of Sighs
Dorsoduro — Artistic & Local
180+ hotels · Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Accademia Gallery, Campo Santa Margherita
Cannaregio — Residential & Authentic
200+ hotels · Jewish Ghetto (first in the world), Ca' d'Oro Palace, Strada Nova Market
Burano & Torcello — Island Escape
20+ hotels · Rainbow-coloured Houses, Torcello Cathedral Mosaics, Lace-making Tradition
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