La Villeggiatura

San Polo & Santa Croce


This charming B&B has six large, light-filled rooms and suites decorated with verve around different musical or historical themes. The choicest rooms are on the piano nobile (main floor) and enjoy pretty views, king-sized beds and generous bathrooms with bathtubs. Breakfast is taken at a communal table where guests are pampered by their genial hostess.


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Nearby San Polo & Santa Croce attractions

1. Pescaria

0.07 MILES

Slinging fresh fish daily for 700 years and still going strong, Venetian fishmongers are more vital to local cuisine than any single chef. Glistening fish…

2. Rialto Market

0.09 MILES

Venice’s main market has been whetting appetites for seven centuries, with fruit and vegetable stands abutting the rather more pungent Pescaria. To see it…

3. Fondazione Prada

0.09 MILES

This stately Grand Canal palace – designed by Domenico Rossi and completed in 1728 – has been commandeered by Fondazione Prada, which is renovating the…

4. Chiesa di San Giovanni Elemosinario

0.09 MILES

Hunkering modestly behind T-shirt kiosks is this soaring brick church, built by Scarpagnino after a disastrous fire in 1514 destroyed much of the Rialto…

5. Ponte de le Tette

0.09 MILES

‘Tits Bridge’ got its name in the late 15th century, when neighbourhood prostitutes were encouraged to display their wares in windows instead of taking…

6. Fabbriche Nuove

0.11 MILES

Flanking the Grand Canal, this porticoed complex was designed by Jacopo Sansovino in the mid-16th century.

8. Il Gobbo

0.12 MILES

Rubbed for luck for centuries, this 1541 statue is now protected by an iron railing. Il Gobbo (The Hunchback) served as a podium for official…