Visiting Venice is a pleasure for the senses, is the city of the
luxury for excellence, also, has one of the best hotels of the world.
(Edición en español)
(Edición en español)
Hi,
when the mankind put the hands to work is capable of the best and the worst, at
this time, we already have it rather than assumed. But, if you're like me,
Rodolfo, will understand that you don't have to conform to discover what is
able to make mankind, the important is to discover what is able to improve, and
in this direction we still have road for grow, but time to time.
One of
the best examples of what our species is capable of achieving when it elevates
the art to priority, is the city of Venice, you
know, canals and gondolas. This city is so rich in detail that I advise to my
accompanying that (never travelled only to Venice) several weeks before they
try to improve their visual memory, in this way, may withhold in its retina the
spectacular places that the camera can only display in two dimensions. In my last trip, I stayed at one of the
best hotels in the world: the Hotel
Danieli (yes, yes, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp used it in their film "The tourist") a Venetian dream.
The
dream begins when you've not yet set foot in the city, but the nerves have
already penetrated deep into you, you know that you're going to a special
place, a region steeped of history, with many legends to tell and with much to
teach you. The building in which engages the Hotel exudes tradition by the four
pores, exudes experiences in spectacular details, not in vain, was built by one
of the most traditional families of the region, before nation. This family gave to Venice four Doges, one
of whom was Enrico Dandolo, which conquered Constantinople (almost nothing).
This building is the Palace Dandolo (Did you had never imagined?).
The
construction dates back to the 14th century and exhibits a marked Venetian
Gothic style, with its pointed arches (a arc than is cut by two lines parallel
to the sides of his shaft and is join thus forming an arc with tip termination)
and its windows with form of clover, something that is repeated in the interior,
also has a characteristic pink colour in its facade. For several centuries it
belonged to different families: Gritti, Bernardo, Mocegino or Nani, were
holders of the property until 1822 when Giuseppe Dal Niel bought the second
floor and turned it into a hotel, years more late his daughter Alfonsina
Muzzarelli, ended up of buying the rest, appropriating of the building.
Over
time it changed of owners, Genovesi and Campi Bozzi & C. invested a small
fortune in 1895 to introduce the electricity, lifts and steam radiators, a
luxury at that time. In 1945 it completed what is now the hotel, demolishing
the buildings between the Palazzo Dandolo
and the Palazzo delle Prigioni, and
building the Palazzo Danieli Excelsior.
This last building was redesigned by the famous French architect Jacques Garcia in 2008, giving
it the appearance that today have proud.
The dream continues when you arrive at the
hotel, and discover that it is located a few meters from St. Mark's square,
from which you can explore the Centre of the city and its most emblematic
buildings, such as the Basilica of San Marcos, the bridge of Sighs, or the
Doge's Palace. There is no better place for you, especially if you
let yourself guided by its Consierge
Luxury Collection, he knows and he show you the city in all its aspects:
sport, fun, art or culture. The Hotel is included within "The
Luxury Collection", a wide range of high quality spaces in
more than 20 countries that carry the Starwood Hotels brand,
a guarantee.
When
you enter the Gothic portal of the Calle
delle Razze you feel that you invades you the relief, you're there, it is
real, a unique decoration in pink marble and a staircase where you will want to
stay. The spaces are divided by columns with elegant fracture, floral motifs
adorn each corner, busts of marble receive you with joy, without a doubt, the
place wait some time by you. The majority of guests at this hotel stand out,
first of all, the feeling of home that was feeling in their stay, in my case,
of course, more than a feeling is a reality.
Crystal
lamps of Murano adorn the living room of the Suite Dandolo, marble coverings are everywhere, in the bathrooms
are transformed into bathtubs or walls. One of the outstanding successes of the
owners of the place has been give personality their space. Thus, Marco Polo
lends its name to a receiver, in that the rest is insured and several
Renaissance-style rooms located in the Palazzo
Danieli Excelsior, with silk curtains and ceilings with cream moulding and
golden. I have also heard the name of Bond, but, frankly, I do not know to who
refer.
The three Signatures Suites are inspired in three celebrities: Greta Garbo,
diva of cinema in the 1930s, in Maria Callas, great diva of the opera and the
last, but not least inspiring in her Royal Highness Princess Grace of Monaco. These
suites have antique furniture, parquet flooring and spectacular ceilings, woven
soft of bronze colour, and a bed that will make you do not want to get out of
there (if you're in good company, I don't know if I explain me). All decorated
by the French designer of interior Pierre Yves-Rochon.
You
will want to travel throughout the hotel, visit the bar Dandolo, which is
located in a corner of the Gothic Hall of the Palazzo, you'll want to memorize
rich tapestries that evoke the legacy of the Pearl of the Adriatic, you soak of
the smell of the Acqua di Parma with
which you feast in the bathrooms, you will want to spend more time at its bar
terrace, with its unparalleled views of St. Mark's basin , or its restaurant
from which you'll see the unparalleled Santa
Maria della Salute and the Palazzo
Ducale.
If you
have lucky enough to stay in one of our Executive
suites, you'll see how pays homage to the Gothic grandeur in its main
lobby, and, in its marble bathrooms, you will become in fan of the fragrances
of Laura Tonatto, you will enjoy
of the earliest childhood with its comfortable bathrobes and slippers, all
unique elements, as befits a Hotel five stars. Speaking of stars, the Royal
suite Doge Dandolo overlooks 180 ° of the lagoon with the San Giorgio
Maggiore island as a backdrop, a real portrait of the 19th century, baroque
armchairs and marble tables (again, yes) carrara, has an original fresco of
18th-century of Jacobo Guarana and carpets on the venetian terrazzo floor.
The
terrazzo is a floor of origin venetian carried out with a mass of clay with
pieces of marble scattered, with the time realized that adding sealants and
polishing it turned into a beautiful surfaces. Today instead of clay, it using
cement (normally white) and dyes to mingle with marbles or stones of easily
polished, don't usually add granite because it hinder the polished. Of course
sold in tiles and decorative elements, they can be also manufactured on-site,
becoming a surface without joints, in this case, you have to calculate well the
expansion joints so that cracks do not occur.
Of course, its facilities have fitness,
Spa, TV, you can savour the delicacies of the region, wines and cocktails of
first (the bar Dandolo has recently received the award Gambaro Rosso), and much
more to discover. Anyway, once inside, you run the risk of not wanting to leave
the Hotel, the last person who was there with me said to me: "If I take piece-to-piece, the Danieli
hotel would have the best place to live, only would fail Venice". Bye
bye.
