Hotel Londra Palace

Location:

The privilege of being in Venice is lived to its fullest with a stay at the Londra Palace. The Hotel is right on the Riva degli Schiavoni, just a few steps from St. Mark’s Square, Ponte dei Sospiri and other fampus spots as well as the most hidden, authentic corners of the City know as Serenissima.

Rooms :

The Londra Palace offers 53 rooms in Biedermeier style each one different from the others, featuring elegant upholstery, brocades and marble bathrooms. Each room is unique : views of St. Marks’ Basin and the Lagoon are one side, and of the rooftops and bell towers of Venice’s historic centre on the other.

Do Leoni Restaurant :

The Do Leoni Restaurant is the pride of the Hotel Londra Palace. The Chef, Loris Indri, skillfully espouses Venetian traditions with the most innovative and traditional tastes, selecting local products for the range of seafood and meat specialities featured in the menu His culinary art is enhanced by the elegance of the indoor dining room, whose décor includes artistic crystal, original paintings and antiques and the veranda on the Riva degli Schiavoni.

LondraBar :
Cocktail time is an authentic Venetian rite. It is performed by Marino Lucchetti, Ivan and Marcella in a relaxing surrounding, mixing local tradition with an international spirit.
The splendid veranda facing Riva degli Schiavoni is the ‘secret’ ingredient that turns even a casual break into a special experience.

History :
A stay in room 106 offers a taste of history. Here, in December 1877, the Russian composer Peter Il’ic Tchaikovsky, wrote the first three movements of Simphony no. 4 originally entitled “Do Leoni”.
Some other famous guests of the Hotel include Gabriele D’Annunzio, who stayed here in 1887 and attended the unveiling of the monument in front of the Hotel, built in honour of King Vittorio Emanuele II and the writers Jorge Luis Borges, to whom the new suite has been dedicated and Iosif Brodskij, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.