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Hotel Gritti Palace
Venice, Italy · The Luxury Collection · Grand Luxury
Santa Maria della Salute and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection are each a four-to-five-minute walk, Saint Mark's Basilica four minutes, Teatro La Fenice five, and Piazza San Marco seven. It carries MICHELIN Two Keys 2025 recognition. Hotel Gritti Palace occupies a Grand Canal palazzo at Campo Santa Maria del Giglio, 2467, San Marco, its Gothic walls dating to 1475 when the Pisani family shaped them into their present form; Doge Andrea.
- 61 rooms
- Opened 1895
- Neighborhood: San Marco
- Rooms from 269 sq ft (25 m²)
- Interiors: Chuck Chewning
About Hotel Gritti Palace
- The Grand Canal palazzo dates to 1475 and became the residence of Doge Andrea Gritti in 1525.
- Ernest Hemingway wrote Across the River and Into the Trees here, and John Ruskin worked on The Stones of Venice during his stay.
- Greta Garbo, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin all stayed at the hotel, which opened in 1895.
- It appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1982 film Identification of a Woman and Woody Allen's 1996 Everyone Says I Love You.
- A roughly 36.5 million euro restoration led by Chuck Chewning ran from 2011 to 2013.
History
The Gritti Palace rises on the Grand Canal at Campo Santa Maria del Giglio as a Venetian Gothic palazzo dated to 1475, reshaped for the Pisani family. In 1525 Doge Andrea Gritti made it his private residence, one of the few Grand Canal hotels that began as a doge's house rather than a purpose-built palace hotel. The façade has looked across to Santa Maria della Salute for five centuries.
The palace became a hotel in 1895. John Ruskin worked on The Stones of Venice from the canal terrace. In 1947 CIGA (Compagnia Italiana Grandi Alberghi) acquired it and renamed it the Gritti Palace Hotel. Ernest Hemingway lodged here on his late-1940s Venetian sojourns and wrote Across the River and Into the Trees looking at the Grand Canal. Churchill painted from the terrace; Garbo and Chaplin signed the book. Starwood took the house in 1994; Marriott placed it in The Luxury Collection in 2016. Chuck Chewning led a 15-month restoration of about 36.5 million euros from 2011 to 2013.
Bar Longhi, panelled with 18th-century Pietro Longhi paintings, faces the canal. The hotel appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman (1982) and Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You (1996). About 82 rooms and suites remain in the former doge's palazzo.
The setting
Hotel Gritti Palace occupies a Grand Canal palazzo at Campo Santa Maria del Giglio, 2467, San Marco, its Gothic walls dating to 1475 when the Pisani family shaped them into their present form; Doge Andrea Gritti made it his private residence in 1525. Santa Maria della Salute and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection are each a four-to-five-minute walk, Saint Mark's Basilica four minutes, Teatro La Fenice five, and Piazza San Marco seven — a position at the convergence of the Grand Canal's grandest views and Venice's richest cultural monuments, where John Ruskin wrote 'The Stones of Venice' while a guest here.
Restaurants and bars
- The Gritti Terrace — Restaurant · Western
- The Gritti Epicurean School — Restaurant
Amenities
- Spa
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star (2026)
- MICHELIN Two Keys (2025)
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