Ancient Palace of the XIV century A fascinating venetian hotel nice and comfortable in one of the most typical and beautiful location in Venice. This palace was a rich and magnificent residence of an aristocratic Venetian family, now it is an elegant and refined 3 stars Hotel, completely restored The Hotel enjoys of an interesting position, preferred by the intellectuals and artists, searching for quiet and inspiration.
The building's faade has a beautiful and remarkable gothic "quadrifora" original of the age, when the building was a patrician palace. Inside the Hotel, at the entrance, there is a stoned staircase that goes from the lobby to the second floor, once called "piano nobile", where there are some rooms.
The intelligent restoration has effected a correct and balanced compromise between aesthetical demands and the non-renounced functional requirements, essential an hotel that wants to keep step with the times. The rooms are furnished with elegance and good taste, with all comforts (private bathroom, cable TV, radio, direct dial telephone, mini-bar, air-conditioned). Our clients can also enjoy of a lightly and roomy sitting- room on the second floor, a bar on the ground floor, and a nice and big veranda overlooking the garden, where breakfast is served in the morning.
The Hotel Pausania is located on the Fondamenta Gerardini 2824, along the Rio San Barnaba, between Ponte delle Pazienze and Ponte dei Carmini. The Hotel is easly reachable from the S.ta Lucia train station or from Piazzale Roma with the public vaporetto line 1 to the stop of Ca' Rezzonico, and walking from the Stazione Marittima of San Basilio.
How to reach it By Car You can park your car in a public garage in Piazzale Roma (Comunale or San Marco) or in Tronchetto. If you choose the Garage San Marco you can have a discount of 10%: ask at the reception for the coupon before your departure. To reach the Hotel Pausania you can take the public vaporetto ACTV line 1 to the stop of Ca' Rezzonico; you get off and follow the Calle Traghetto to the Campo San Barnaba and finally, following the canal (Rio San Barnaba) along the Fondamenta Gerardini for 50 meters, you will meet our Hotel. There is the possibility to have private water taxi or car taxi from Piazzale Roma or Tronchetto to the Hotel (you can contact the reception by phone, fax or e-mail for more information and rates).
By Train The Venice train station Santa Lucia is about 20 minutes far from our Hotel and you can take the public vaporetto ACTV line 1 to Ca' Rezzonico (follow instructions "By car" above). The reception can arrange transfers by watertaxi from the Santa Lucia train station or also from Mestre train station by cab taxi (for information and rates contact the reception by fax, phone or e-mail).
By plane from Venice Airport Marco Polo You can choose the better way : By water taxi directly to the Hotel: for details and rates you can contact the Hotel by phone, fax or e-mail. By water-public service Alilaguna to the Zattere and then walking for 10 minutes. By cabtaxi directly to the Hotel: for details and rates you can contact the Hotel by phone, fax or e-mail. By public bus: line ATVO or ACTV to Piazzale Roma and then follow instructions for reaching the Hotel (see above information "By car").
By plane from Treviso Airport By public bus ATVO By private cabtaxi directly to Hotel : for details an rates you can contact the Hotel by phone, fax or e-mail.