Luxury hotel holiday Ca' Pisani Venice

Ca' Pisani is Venice's first design hotel, transforming a late-14th-century palazzo in the Dorsoduro district into a pioneering Art Deco space that opened in 2000. The building's traditional Venetian exterior, with its classic ochre plaster and marble-framed windows, conceals an interior where architects Roberto Luigi Canovaro and Pierluigi Pescolderung have balanced preserved original elements — exposed beam ceilings and brickwork — with distinctive 1930s and 1940s design touches, including custom inlay doors, bamboo-parquet floors, steel stairs, and walnut bedframes. The hotel's 29 individually styled rooms function as small art galleries, furnished with original collectibles from the interwar period and geometric motifs, whilst several rooms feature works by Fortunato Depero, one of Italy's most celebrated Futurist artists. The rooms range from Superior rooms with Venetian root-wood beds and Bevilacqua fabric curtains to dramatic two-level Loft suites with spectacular glass or wood staircases dividing living and sleeping areas, and Junior Suites each containing carefully selected pieces from the Serandrei family's collection of 20th century art. Positioned on Rio Ter Foscarini, a former canal, the hotel sits one minute from the Accademia vaporetto stop and three minutes from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, placing guests at the cultural heart of Venice's artistic quarter. La Rivista restaurant, inspired by Fortunato Depero's Futurist painting, features lamps reminiscent of old Neapolitan coffee makers and blue Starlight marble tables, serving traditional Venetian food, from cicchetti appetisers to seasonal dishes paired with local wines, attracting both hotel guests and fashionable local Venetians. The panoramic Altana rooftop terrace offers sweeping views over Venetian rooftops and domes, with sun loungers, bar service, and an outdoor shower, whilst the Turkish bath provides a tranquil steam room experience. The hotel curates distinctive experiences for its guests, including lagoon boat excursions aboard a Riva Acquariva, visits to the Antica Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua weaving mill where 18th century looms produce the fine fabrics used throughout the hotel's rooms, after-hours evening visits to St. Mark's Basilica and Venice's most important museums, and tours through the Prosecco hills.