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Vista Verona
Verona, Italy · Vista · Accessible Luxury
Verona stayed curiously underserved by luxury hoteliers until LarioHotels bought a tired three-star on Corticella Leoni, behind Juliet's balcony, and reopened it in April 2022 with sixteen rooms by Milan's Maurizio Maggi Studio Arte. It is still the only hotel in the city with an indoor pool, and it gave Verona its first private spa suite. On the penthouse floor Fabio Aceti cooks at Sottovoce after years with Gualtiero Marchesi and Michel Roux at Le Gavroche, and the rooftop above it looks across medieval roofs and Scaliger towers to the Arena.
- 16 rooms
- Opened 2022
- Rooms from 280 sq ft (26 m²)
- Interiors: Maurizio Maggi Studio Arte
About Vista Verona
- Michelin gave the house one Key in 2025, the guide's mark for a hotel worth the journey in its own right.
- Thirteen of the sixteen keys are suites, and the wardrobes were deliberately sized for evening dress: the Arena's opera season is a ten-minute walk away.
- The front door faces Porta Leoni, a Roman city gate whose excavated remains still sit in the street, a few paces from Piazza delle Erbe.
- LarioHotels is taking the Vista name around Italy: Como in 2018, Verona in 2022, Ostuni in 2025, and in 2029 a Pisa house inside the 1315 Palazzo dei Trovatelli, with the Leaning Tower in the window.
- Entry-level rooms start at 280 sq ft (26 m²).
History
The building is a nineteenth-century mansion in Verona's medieval centro storico, at Corticella Leoni 3, and for years it held an unremarkable three-star hotel. LarioHotels, the Passera family group from Como, bought it, stripped it back and reopened it on 29 April 2022 as the second house under their Vista name, after Como.
There are only sixteen accommodations, thirteen of them suites and three deluxe rooms, designed by the Milanese practice Maurizio Maggi Studio Arte with fabrics from Dedar Milano, marble bathrooms and wooden floors. For a hotel of that size the list of rooms downstairs is unusually long: a private library, a wine tasting room, a gym, a spa, an indoor swimming pool (still the only one in a Verona hotel), and the city's first spa suite, a fifty-square-metre room for private treatments. The penthouse level holds Sottovoce, where executive chef Fabio Aceti has run the kitchen since opening, and above it a rooftop terrace with a full turn of the city.
Aceti, born in 1986, learned under Gualtiero Marchesi at L'Albereta in Franciacorta and Ezio Santin at the Antica Osteria del Ponte, then interned with Michel Troisgros in Paris before moving to London to cook for Michel Roux at Le Gavroche and Roux at the Landau. The hotel is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World and holds one Michelin Key.
The setting
Corticella Leoni is a short lane inside the Roman and medieval core of Verona. Porta Leoni, one of the old Roman gates, stands at the end of it with its excavated foundations open in the pavement; Juliet's balcony is immediately behind the hotel and Piazza delle Erbe, the old Roman forum, is a couple of minutes north. The Arena, where the opera festival runs from June to September, is about ten minutes on foot, and the Adige loops around the whole quarter. The hills that start just outside the city are Valpolicella, which is why the hotel cellar leans the way it does.
Restaurants and bars
- Sottovoce Restaurant — Restaurant · Traditional ingredients with creative interpretations
- Infinity Bar — Bar
Experiences
- Best of Verona walking tour with arena — Walking tour with a local guide through Veronese culture and traditions.
- La Dolce Vita on Lake Garda — Boat rides aboard a Riva or a Frauscher on Lake Garda.
- Private visit Palazzo Maffei — Private visit to a 17th-century palace a few steps from Vista Palazzo at the end of Piazza delle Erbe.
- Wine district — Full-day tour of the Amarone wine areas with a Veronese-born expert guide.
- Verona and Lake Garda — A day dedicated to culture and food and wine.
Amenities
- Library devoted to calm and focus
- Rooftop terrace with views over the city
- Guest Experience concierge team for discovering the city and surroundings
- Nespresso machine in every suite
- Flat-screen HD TV with fast internet
- Silk welcome kit
- Rivolta Carmignani bathrobes
- Pillow Menu
Awards
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
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