Antigo Trovatore Hotel Venice

General Information

Unique attention is reserved to the Antigo Trovatoreby a property which features been a hotel for over a century and features everytime been family runned. Situated at less than 100 meters from the striking St. Mark's Square, in the center of Venice, the inn is easily reached from the situated un the centre Riva Degli Schiavoni (which proposes several boat stops for the town water transportation system), the st where our side street, Calle delle Rasse, opens out onto. This historic boulevard features been called in this way since Medieval times because here there were a lot of laboratories and boutiques making and selling cloth in lana rassa (or rascia from Russia), a rough wool which was used to produce the covers for the cabins of the notable gondolas. The Hotel is situated in an invaluable specimen of the lesser buildings of Venetian architecture: historic constructions developed in such a way as to finest seize the opportunity of the municipal space, so precious because conditioned by the nearby water. Here, the old vertical structure, in a citadel form, places the rooms for guests and the other elements of the guesthouse in a column, maintaining plenty of elements of a century long tradition, such as the porteghetto (a salon used to access the staircases), the delicate exterior pergoli in wrought iron (with flowered balconies) and the altana, the characteristic roof-top verandah, constructed in forest, which opens up over the roofs of Venice, used today just as in the past for household use in addition to recreation time. A lot of of the buildings which surround the Antigo Trovatore have been changed into hotels over time, where numerous customers, traders and even pilgrims who came to Venice or set sail on their journeys from the gulf of surrounding St. Mark's headed for the open sea. The hotel proposes its visitors:

Transportation

From Piazzale Roma take a boat No 51 or No 1 or two and receive off at St. Zaccaria stop. Take the avenue (Calle delle Rasse) opposite the boat stop. The guesthouse is located in the midst of the st to your left.