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Dorsoduro
B&B Dorsoduro 461
B&B
€
( 041 582 61 72;
www.dorsoduro461.com
; Rio Terà San Vio 461; d €70-120; ; Accademia)
Get to know Venice from the inside out at Sylvia and Francesco's home-style B&B,
around the corner from Peggy Guggenheim's place. Your hosts' shared love of books, an-
tique restoration and design is obvious in the bookshelf-lined breakfast room and three
well-curated guestrooms, with Kartell lamps perched atop 19th-century poker tables.
English-speaking violin-maker Francesco cooks tasty pancakes and dishes excellent
Venice tips.
INN
€
Hotel Galleria
( 041 523 24 89;
www.hotelgalleria.it
;
Campo della Carità 878a; d incl breakfast €110-220; ;
Accademia)
Smack on the Grand Canal alongside the Ponte dell'Accademia is this classic
hotel in a converted 18th-century mansion. Book ahead, especially for rooms 7 and 9,
small doubles overlooking the Grand Canal, and room 8, with Liberty furnishings and
Grand Canal views. Most rooms share updated bathrooms; room 10 sleeps five, with an
original frescoed ceiling and Grand Canal-facing windows.
Pensione Accademia
Villa Maravege
INN
€€
( 041 521 01 88;
www.pensioneaccademia.it
; Fondamenta Bollani 1058; d €145-340; ;
Accademia)
Step through the ivy-covered gate of this 17th-century garden villa just off the
Grand Canal, and you'll forget you're a block from the Accademia. All 27 guest rooms
are recently restored and effortlessly elegant, with parquet floors, antique desks, creamy
walls and snug, shiny modern bathrooms - some offer four-poster beds, wood-beamed
ceilings and glimpses of the canal.
Pensione La Calcina
HOTEL
€€
