Do Pozzi, Venice

About Do Pozzi

The Hotel Do Pozzi, an oasis of tranquillity amidst the bustle of Venice's city centre, has been welcoming Citalia guests for over 30 years.

Housed in a late 17th century building, this simple, friendly hotel features a small lounge, breakfast room and a delightfully peaceful, flower-filled courtyard. Inside the hotel there are various pieces of antique and modern art on display, and during the warmer months, guests can enjoy their breakfast in the courtyard.

Many bars and restaurants surround the Do Pozzi, including Venice's most renowned bar. Harry's Bar, inaugurated in 1931, has attracted many visitors from Ernest Hemmingway to the glitterati of today. It is especially famous for its bellini cocktails, but also houses an excellent restaurant.

A cheerful hotel, conveniently located only moments from Piazza San Marco, the Do Pozzi is an ideal base to introduce you at the heart of Venice.

Accommodation:

Rooms with bath or shower, television, minibar and hairdryer.

Supplements (from):

Single £13.

Facilities:

29 air-conditioned rooms
Breakfast room
Lounge
Lift

Please Note:

Buffet breakfast. Minimum stay 1 night (2 nights for Fri and Sat arrivals).
Waterbus stop: Giglio.

About Venice

Built on stilts and forming an archipelago of 117 small islands, Venice reposes on a liquid tapestry of calm canals and lazy lagoons 2,5 miles (4km) from Venice's mainland. The city's luminous quality is glimpsed from gliding gondolas and explored on foot through narrow calli, linked to one another by ornate stone bridges. Painted palazzi, Byzantine basilicas and Baroque domes compete with the dove-flocked piazzas that reach the ultramarine waters.

The wealth of Venice is evident in Piazza San Marco and alludes to when the Venetian republic was a dominant mercantile power, trading silks, spices and gemstones carried overland by Bedouin caravans and shipped to Mediterranean ports. Nowadays, modern craft navigate between six ancient sestieri, bearing carefree stowaways to St Mark's Basilica, the Palazzo Ducale and on up the Grand Canal to the Rialto, where palazzi lining unhurried channels display architectural styles spanning five centuries.

Become tempted by Venice's food market below the Rialto Bridge and after having enjoyed a meal head to the shopaholic joys of the Mercerie, which runs between Piazza San Marco and the Rialto Bridge. Perhaps cross the short stretch of water that leads to the glass-making island of Murano and the lace and linen enclave of Burano.

Venice Lido is the largest island here and benefits from an 8 mile (13km) long beach, which at the turn of the 19th century, created a premier resort for international aristocrats. Regular vaporetti, exclusive motor launches and public water buses transport visitor to another world in the time it takes to drink a cappuccino. Venice is a permanent carnival, rejoicing in a masked ball in February that swirls visitors into a sensual atmosphere peopled by gallant heroes and bewitching courtesans.

CARNIVAL

5-16 Feb 2010

During this stunning extravaganza, the entire city becomes a stage set for vibrant pageants, concerts, dinner-dances and spectacular masked balls, culminating on Shrove Tuesday in a fabulous ball, dancing in the piazza and a magnificent firework display over the Bacino di San Marco.