Hotel Metropole

Venice, Italy. 58 rooms, 7 suites and an apartment overlooking San Giorgio Maggiore; one suite has a private hammam, another a lagoon-facing terrace.

Hotel MetropoleVenice, Italy

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58 rooms, 7 suites and an apartment overlooking San Giorgio Maggiore; one suite has a private hammam, another a lagoon-facing terrace.
Orientalbar & Bistrot, with a site-specific work by Joseph Kosuth, and the Giardino degli Agrumi citrus garden for breakfast and summer aperitifs.
More than 2,000 antiques from the Beggiato family collection, a spa with heated pool, an 80-seat meeting room and a private water-taxi pontoon.
Located on the Riva degli Schiavoni, facing the lagoon and the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.

7 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

c. 1500
The building already appears on Jacopo de' Barbari's celebrated bird's-eye map of Venice.
1686
The hotel dates the former oratory now housing its Orientalbar to 1686. House tradition, not confirmed by independent sources, claims Antonio Vivaldi taught music and composed there.
1880
The building becomes the Casa Kirsch.
1895 – 1901
Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann are recorded among the guests.
1900
From the turn of the century the house trades as the Albergo Metropole.
1942 – 1945
During the Second World War the hotel is turned into a military hospital.
1968
Venetian hoteliers Pierluigi and Elisabeth Beggiato take over; their daughter Gloria later becomes owner and general manager.