Location
In The Dorsoduro overlooking the Grand Canal – Moments to an excellent variety of interesting small shops, bars and restaurants including Enoteca Ai Artisti, Taverna and Ristorante San Trovaso, La Bitta and Locanda Montin… and not forgetting Cantinone Gia Schiavi-Al Bottegon for super cicheti and Bar alla Toletta with its array of tramezzini.
Also within a short walk of the much-photographed fruit and vegetable boat moored at San Barnaba and a well-stocked Punto supermarket in Campo Santa Margherita.
Conveniently close to two vaporetto (water bus) stops for easy travel around the city – one at Accademia and the other at Ca’ Rezzonico (next to the Ca’ Rezzonico Museum of 18th Century Art).
Interior
Offering plentiful space and comfort for each and every guest, accommodation is as flexible as it is attractive and comprises a main sitting room with polished plaster walls, comfy sofas, a classy chandelier and traditional terrazzo flooring, plus a beautiful white marble feature fireplace vying for your attention between two large windows overlooking the Grand Canal towards the noble palazzi opposite and lying to each side.
Just off the sitting room sits the stylish kitchen/dining room – neat and well-groomed with a dining suite seating eight for breakfasting each morning as the Grand Canal springs to life outside your windows or gradually winds down at the close of each day.
Accessed via a short internal hallway and restfully situated to the side of the Palazzo is a relaxing double bedroom in easy-on the eye colours with terrazzo flooring, a double bed (which can be made into twins – simply ask when booking) and a separate brand new and beautifully decorated bathroom with shower.
Dividing the above accommodation with that lying to Ca’ Mainella’s rear is a lockable door leading to 2 further double bedrooms – one simple, uncluttered and with a double bed, and the other overlooking the Palazzo’s shaded private garden** with a rococo-style double bed which can also be made into twins – again, simply ask when booking.
And also to the rear, a really rather special double bedroom/studio with views of the garden…
… bright, spacious and super-adaptable, the room has gorgeous wooden parquet, a sofa bed sleeping 2, a concealed kitchen area to the rear, and a simple dining suite for six which can be folded and stowed away when not in use so freeing up all available space to the max – sheer genius! – while Ca’ Mainella’s second bathroom with bathtub and shower over and ‘tapestry’ mosaic wall completes the accommodation.