Venicecharms.com a Venice Travel portal

Venicecharms.com seems just another travel portal on Venice, and for some aspects obviously it is. By navigating through it you will be able to catch many useful information likewise any other Venice travel portal, however, the selection of information is very careful and aims to propose interesting high quality solution for your stay in Venice.

Shops, unique itineraries to discover hidden parts of Venice, short histories and curiosities on Venice monuments, most typical and traditional events like the Historical regatta or the magnificent Redentore festivity, Restaurant selection and short history of local cuisine.  Venice is always a surprise and Venicecharms.com helps you discover it from a different point of view.

A separated special mention has to be done for the Hotel section, which is a selection of 4 star Venice Hotels, even bookable directly, in fact Venicecharms.com is an informative website and does not intermediates on Hotel reservations like the most famous Hotel portals, that is a strategic difference when you have to consider to book your Hotel, in such a way you will be sure to have always the best available rate.

Since this is an informative website, and information flow is constantly going, venicecharms.com will be adding more and more contents and features, we suggest, to take a look every once in a while to discover more and more about the beautiful city of Venice.

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Venice Hotels, history of excellence

Venice (Italy) has always been a fascinating destination, soon or later will be impossible to avoid a visit. You can go on holiday, vacation and relax, or for historical interests (churches, museums, architecture) or you can go to celebrate a romantic event or you can even go for work, it is not rare to have great events that normally gather lots of people working. For example the Biennale of art, the most important Italian contermporary art exposition scheduled every 2 years (biennale) in Venice. Or the great Film Festival in the Lido island. Many years ago in 1908 a local family, the Serandrei’s opened a small “Pensione” in via XXII Marzo, one of the most important streets not far from the great St. Mark’s Square and the important Fenice Theatre. Firstly named Internazionale during the years got renamed as Saturnia, but most important got slowly transformed into an Hotel achieving the level of 4 stars. Together in the early 1900 the Serandrei family was managing a world famous pianobar named’ Ciro’s Bar , also mentioned in a Simone De Beauvoir’s book. Ciro’s bar got transformed into a successful first class restaurant in 1960 named La Caravella. Since then, we can surely say that the Hotel Saturnia & International became a property of Charme and has achieved a high consideration throughout the solid management of the same family.  In year 2000 the Serandrei family arrived at the 4^th generation of Venetian hoteliers decided to open a new Hotel in Venice,  an hotel with a new concept for the city, an hotel that finally tracked a defined separation between the normal ‘700 hotel’s Venetian style with a more up-to-date modern Design style. Hotel Ca’ Pisani, a 29 rooms Design 4 star property, begun its activity, bringing in Venice the new concept Hotel. Ca’ Pisani Hotel is entirely a mixture with modern ambience and original Art Deco pieces of fornitures like beds in rooms, welcome desk at reception. The innovating idea of having a Design Hotel in Venice was so successful that was soon copied (but probably without the same success) and a couple of other hotels with design concept opended. Nowadays we can say that Hotel Saturnia is a piece of the Venice Hotels tradition with its centennial history and charme, and is a Superior 4 star property, The Ca’ Pisani is the new coming ahead both are great places where to stay in Venice, probably the best choice somebody can ever make depending on its taste. 

Tradition & Charme or modernity and Design? 

The offcial websites are: 

Hotel Saturnia Charme & History http://www.hotelsaturnia.it/

Design Hotel Ca’ Pisani http://www.capisanihotel.it/ 

Venice Restaurants - La Caravella

La Caravella is an historical elegant Venice Restaurant, that began activity in the early 60’s as was transformed from a successful piano-bar named Ciro’s  very well known in Venice and even internationally (mentioned in by Simone de Beauvoir in one of her books).La Caravella immediately became one of the most successful restaurant, especially renowned for its French wine and the flambé dishes.Nowadays the restaurant has gained the typical Venetian courtyard in which, during nice season, from spring to autumn meals are served among beautiful and very caracteristic wells.  La Caravella has typical Venetian cuisine offering dishes for the historical culinary tradition of Venice, like “sarde in saor” sardines fried and then marinated in onion, raisins and pine-nuts, or a steamed spider crab are not to be left out “risi e bisi” rice cooked with fresh green peas, which are prepared not like a risotto, but is more likely a soup.  Among the many Venice Restaurants, La Caravella has a good balance between price and quality, remembering that Venice is a bit on the expensive side, consider this restaurant if you are looking for a first class restaurant where to have and unforgettable experience.

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