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A 32-room palazzo two minutes from San Marco, made entirely by Italian artisans — Venini glass, Rubelli fabric, a nine-table restaurant and its own canal landing for water taxis.
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Need To Know
- 32 rooms and suites across three adjoining 17th-century palazzi, from guest rooms to junior suites and suites, plus a rooftop studio suite with a private terrace
- Il Piccolo restaurant (nine tables) and Il Piccolo bar — Venetian cicchetti, plant-forward cooking, the signature Doge's Fizz aperitivo
- A private water entrance for water-taxi arrival; concierge, room service, fast Wi-Fi
- Family-friendly, with connecting and family room options across the buildings
- Interiors made entirely by Italian artisans — Venini glass, Rubelli textiles, Ginori porcelain, Carrara marble
- A Grand Opera Tour arranged in winter, with seats at La Fenice and other Venice stages
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The all-Italian craft — Venini Murano glass, Rubelli fabrics, Ginori porcelain, Carrara marble and hand-laid seminato floors, every fabric and fitting made between Venice and Tuscany.
- The position — two minutes from Piazza San Marco yet on a quiet canal corner, with the Scala Contarini del Bovolo and the Guggenheim a short walk and La Fenice close by.
- Il Piccolo — a nine-table restaurant under Chef Stefano Santo, plant-forward and seasonal, sourcing vegetables from the lagoon island of Sant'Erasmo and fish from Venetian waters.
- The arrival — a private water entrance for water taxis straight from the station or airport, gliding off the canal into your own palazzo door.
- The family welcome — run by the Maestrelli sisters of a Florentine hotel family, three generations in, so the service is personal and the itineraries bespoke.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Hotel Violino d’Oro
€1,027.50 for 1 Night
Location
Address
San Marco 2091, Venice, Italy
Travel Info
A short walk from Piazza San Marco, or arrive by water taxi to the hotel's private canal entrance; there is no road access in Venice. The Basilica, the Doge's Palace, the Rialto and La Fenice are all within an easy walk, and water taxis run from Santa Lucia station.
Last Updated: 2026-06-09
Expert Review
Origins
Violino d'Oro is one of Venice's newest fine hotels, and one of its most quietly ambitious. It opened in November 2022, the work of the Maestrelli sisters, Sara and Elena, whose Florentine family has run hotels for three generations and whose small group also keeps houses in Florence and on the Tuscan coast. For Venice they took on something more complicated than a single palazzo: three adjoining seventeenth-century buildings just off Piazza San Marco, each previously a small hotel in its own right, and knitted them into one.
The remaking is the tell. Rather than cram the buildings full, the family enlarged and reduced — more than sixty rooms in the old hotels became thirty-two in the new one, traded for space, light and proportion. The result runs from Calle Larga XXII Marzo to Campo San Moisè and along the Rio de San Moisè, a quiet canal corner two minutes from the busiest square in the world.
What fills it is a manifesto as much as a decor scheme. Violino d'Oro was conceived as a wholly Italian, wholly artisanal project — "this home is made in Italy" — every fabric, fitting and object crafted between Venice and Tuscany: Venini Murano chandeliers, including a 1950s Carlo Scarpa design, Rubelli textiles, Ginori porcelain in the restaurant, Carrara marble bathrooms and hand-laid seminato floors, antiques and contemporary art set against a green-and-cream palette. The family frame it as sustainability of a particular kind — made locally, made well, made to last — and the effect, across the three old palazzi, is less hotel than the home of a cultivated Venetian who collects as seriously as they entertain.
Top Secret
The rooftop Studio Suite is the room to ask for — its own terrace over Corte Barozzi and the canal, the quietest corner of a quiet hotel. And note what the conversion did: three former hotels of sixty-odd rooms became thirty-two, so the spaces are larger than the address and the price-bracket would lead you to expect — worth asking which of the enlarged rooms is free when you book.
The Review
Violino d'Oro is the rare new Venice hotel that feels as though it has always been there. Opened in 2022 by the Maestrelli family of Florentine hoteliers, it occupies three adjoining seventeenth-century palazzi two minutes from Piazza San Marco, on a hushed canal corner that keeps the crowds at arm's length while putting the Basilica, the Doge's Palace and La Fenice within an easy walk.
The concept is the thing: everything inside is made in Italy, by hand, between Venice and Tuscany. Venini and Murano glass, Rubelli fabrics, Ginori porcelain, Carrara marble, dark seminato floors, midcentury pieces and antiques against a calm green-and-cream scheme — the effect is eclectic and residential, the home of a Venetian art collector rather than a hotel lobby. The thirty-two rooms are unusually generous because the family reduced the old buildings' sixty-plus rooms to make them so; the rooftop studio suite, with its private terrace, is the one to book.
Downstairs, Il Piccolo is a nine-table restaurant where Chef Stefano Santo cooks a plant-forward, seasonal Venetian menu built on produce from the lagoon island of Sant'Erasmo, with a bar for cicchetti and the house Doge's Fizz by the water. Run hands-on by the family, with a private canal landing for arrivals and a winter opera programme at La Fenice and beyond, it suits the traveller who wants Venice at its most central but its least touristic — an intimate, intensely Italian palazzo a stone's throw from the Piazza, with the volume turned down.
