Aman Venice — A 2026 Review: Palazzo Papadopoli at the Thirteen-Year Mark

I checked into Aman Venice on the afternoon of February 14, 2026 for a four-night stay anchored on the Tiepolo-frescoed Stanza Tiepolo Suite on the second piano nobile (Suite 215, EUR 6,800 per night before tax and service in the late-winter shoulder window). The arrival was via the property’s water-jetty entrance from the Grand Canal — the standard arrival sequence at Aman Venice — with a Riva Aquariva launch operated by the property’s water transport partner picking me up at the Venezia Santa Lucia railway station after a Frecciarossa ride from Milano Centrale that morning. Rate paid, no comp, no press rate, paid revenue settled by wire at checkout on February 18.

The Aman Venice has been operating for thirteen seasons now — the property opened in 2013 as the brand’s first urban European hotel after Aman Le Melezin (the 1992 Courchevel ski property) and Amanzoe (the 2012 Peloponnese resort) — and the question for this stay was whether the property has held its position as the most architecturally significant heritage-palazzo conversion in Venice against the broader Grand-Canal Palace tier, which has now meaningfully evolved around it. The Bauer reopened as the Rosewood Hotel Bauer in mid-2025 after a three-year closure; the Gritti Palace finished an incremental room-refresh programme across 2024 and 2025; the Belmond Cipriani continued its post-2018 renovation cycle; and the broader Venice luxury market has densified at the upper tier in a way that did not exist when the Aman opened.

The short answer is that the property has held its position. The longer answer is the rest of this review.

Quick answer

Aman Venice in 2026 remains the most architecturally distinguished heritage-palazzo conversion in Venice. The Tiepolo frescoes on the piano nobile, the two-level piano nobile programme with the Yellow Bar and the Blue Bar, the soprintendenza-supervised historic-interior restoration, the water-jetty arrival from the Grand Canal, and the 24-suite-only inventory are the structural distinctions that the Gritti, the Cipriani, and the new Rosewood Bauer cannot replicate at the same heritage register. The qualifications: the property is structurally small at 24 suites — among the smallest Palace inventories in any major European city — and is not the right answer for a guest who wants a hotel-scale stay rather than a palazzo-residence stay; the F&B programme under Matteo Panfilio at Arva is competent but is not the strongest in-house dining in Venice (the Oro at the Cipriani under Riccardo Canella holds a Michelin star and is the strongest in-house programme at the upper tier); the property’s San Polo sestiere position is structurally a more residential, less centrally tourist-frequented location than the San Marco-anchored peers, which is a feature for some guests and a constraint for others. For a heritage-palazzo Venice stay at the highest architectural register, Aman Venice is the answer in 2026.

Location and arrival

Aman Venice occupies Palazzo Papadopoli at Calle Tiepolo Baiamonte 1364 in the San Polo sestiere, on the western bank of the Grand Canal directly across from the Ca’ Farsetti city hall on the eastern bank. The position is approximately 350 metres north of the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal axis, approximately 800 metres west of San Marco square via the principal pedestrian routes, and approximately 1.6 kilometres east of the Venezia Santa Lucia railway station. The San Polo sestiere is the smallest of the six historic Venice sestieri and is structurally a more residential, less heavily tourist-trafficked area than San Marco or Castello.

Arrival at Aman Venice is the property’s most architecturally controlled ritual and is the structural distinction from every other Venice Palace. The principal arrival sequence is via private water launch from the Venezia Santa Lucia railway station (the standard mainland-arrival point) or the Marco Polo airport’s water-taxi pier at Tessera. The property’s water transport partnership runs Riva Aquariva launches with the property’s signature interior livery; the launch operator picks the guest up at the railway-station water pier or the airport pier, runs the Grand Canal eastward to the property’s water jetty at the Palazzo Papadopoli’s water entry, and ties up at the property’s private water-gate. The water-jetty arrival sequence on my February 14 arrival took approximately 28 minutes from the railway-station pier to the property’s water-gate, which is the standard timing for the Santa Lucia routing.

The water-jetty arrival is the property’s most-photographed ritual and is, in person, the most architecturally controlled hotel arrival in Venice. The launch enters the Grand Canal’s western flank, slows on the approach to the Palazzo Papadopoli at the Rio della Madonnetta intersection, ties up at the property’s water-gate at the palazzo’s principal water entry, and the principal door opens onto the palazzo’s water-level androne — a vaulted ground-floor entry hall with original sixteenth-century stonework and the restored marble flooring programme. Check-in is conducted seated in the androne on the property’s signature low banquettes, with the principal manager-on-duty handling the arrival registration. On my February 14 arrival, water-gate to chair was 22 seconds and chair to suite door was 6 minutes 40 seconds including the elevator ride to the second piano nobile and the introduction to the floor butler.

The property runs an alternative arrival sequence via the calle entrance on the San Polo side — the Calle Tiepolo Baiamonte address has a pedestrian entry approximately 80 metres from the principal water-gate — for guests who prefer to walk to the property from the San Marco or Rialto areas. The calle entrance is the property’s secondary arrival sequence and is run with the same chair-side registration process at the androne. For first-time guests at Aman Venice, the water-gate arrival is the canonical sequence and is the arrival ritual I would book first; the calle entrance is the right answer for return guests or for late arrivals when the water-launch programme is structurally constrained.

Marco Polo airport is approximately 35 to 50 minutes by private water taxi via the principal route across the lagoon to the Santa Lucia or San Marco pier with the connecting Aman launch to the property; the property’s preferred water-taxi partner is operated through Venezia Taxi and runs a 35-foot Cantiere Sole motorboat fleet. Helipad arrivals are conducted at the San Nicolo heliport on Lido island with a connecting launch to the property; helicopter transfers from Milano-Linate or Bologna-Marconi to the San Nicolo heliport are operated by the property’s concierge partnership with the Air Dolomiti programme.

The property in context

The 24-suite inventory is the smallest Palace-tier inventory in Venice and is approximately one-quarter the size of the Bauer at 110 keys and one-third the size of the Gritti at 82 keys. The small inventory is the property’s defining structural feature and the operating decision that shapes most of the guest experience: every guest is a suite guest, the staff-to-guest ratio is approximately 3.2 staff per guest at full occupancy (the highest among the Venice Palaces, by the property’s published figures), and the front-of-house team operates on a recognition basis that the larger properties cannot match.

The property is owned by the Aman Hotels parent (the Aman parent holding is held under Vlad Doronin’s principal investment vehicle following the 2014 Doronin-led acquisition of the broader Aman portfolio) and is operated directly under Aman Hotels’ European operating arm. The general manager is Stefano Belluzzi, who has held the role since 2022; the previous general manager Arnaud Champenois was at the property for the 2018-2022 cycle. The senior management team — the executive chef at Arva, the head sommelier, the spa director, and the head butler corps — has been notably stable across the post-2022 cycle.

Palazzo Papadopoli itself is a fifteenth-century Venetian palazzo with sixteenth-century rebuilds (the principal facade and the piano nobile programme were rebuilt under the Coccina-Tiepolo family commission in approximately 1560) and eighteenth-century interior commissions (the Tiepolo fresco programme dates from approximately 1745-1750 under Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s atelier). The building passed through the Coccina, Tiepolo, Papadopoli, and Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga families across its history, and the Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga family sold the principal palazzo footprint for the Aman conversion in the 2010-2012 acquisition window. The conversion was led by Jean-Michel Gathy of Denniston (Aman’s principal architectural partner for the broader brand portfolio) with the historic-interior restoration conducted under the Soprintendenza for Venice’s heritage-classified buildings — the restoration programme ran approximately 30 months from 2010 through the 2013 opening.

Room tier walkthrough

Standard suites (Palazzo Suites)

The entry tier — the Palazzo Suites, 65 to 85 square metres, from EUR 2,400 per night in low-season January-February to EUR 5,400 per night in high-season May and September. The category is on the ground-floor and mezzanine levels of the palazzo, with garden-orientation suites looking onto the property’s two restored Venetian gardens (the Rio della Madonnetta-side garden and the calle-side garden) and interior-orientation suites looking onto the palazzo’s central court.

The Palazzo Suites do not have the Tiepolo-frescoed ceilings of the piano nobile categories but have the restored original eighteenth-century plasterwork programme, the Murano-glass chandelier programme, and the property’s signature Aman interior register from the Gathy-led design programme. The bathrooms are in the property’s signature Carrara-and-travertine specification with freestanding tubs and walk-in showers; the dressing rooms are integrated within the principal suite footprint.

Piano Nobile suites and the Tiepolo categories

The signature tier — the Piano Nobile Suites, 90 to 140 square metres, from EUR 4,800 per night to EUR 9,400 per night. The category is on the first and second piano nobile levels and includes the property’s most architecturally distinguished suites with the Tiepolo-frescoed ceilings, the restored eighteenth-century plasterwork programme, and the original Murano-glass chandelier programme on the piano nobile spaces.

I occupied the Stanza Tiepolo Suite on the second piano nobile for this four-night stay — a 105-square-metre suite with a Tiepolo-attributed ceiling fresco in the bedroom (the suite takes its name from the fresco), a Grand-Canal view through the principal sitting-room window, and the property’s signature canopy bed under the frescoed ceiling. The suite layout: principal sleeping zone under the frescoed ceiling, sitting room with a Grand-Canal view through the principal window, dressing room behind the sleeping zone, and a Carrara-marble bathroom in the property’s specification with a freestanding tub on the canal-facing wall.

The Stanza Tiepolo’s defining feature is the canopy bed beneath the frescoed ceiling — the architectural composition is the most photographed bedroom configuration in Venice and is, in person, more architecturally controlled than the marketing images convey. The ceiling fresco itself was conservation-restored across the 2010-2013 programme and is illuminated through the night by an adjustable up-lighting programme controlled from the bedside panel. Sleeping under a Tiepolo fresco is, as the property’s marketing copy correctly suggests, the experience that distinguishes Aman Venice from every other heritage hotel in the city.

Wi-Fi peaked at 215 megabits per second down and 182 megabits per second up on the in-suite Ethernet — strong by Venice Palace standards and a meaningful upgrade over the equivalent at the Gritti (where I had measured approximately 145 down and 122 up in May 2024). The desk in the Stanza Tiepolo was small (110 centimetres) and is not the right size for sustained working sessions; I moved to the principal sitting-room console for any laptop work during the stay.

Alcova Tiepolo and the larger signature suites

The Alcova Tiepolo Suite is the property’s principal Tiepolo-named signature suite — 130 square metres on the first piano nobile with a Tiepolo-frescoed bedroom alcove, a formal sitting room with a Grand-Canal view, a dining area for four, and a marble bathroom in the property’s premium specification. Rate, EUR 8,400 to EUR 12,600 per night depending on season.

I have stayed in the Alcova Tiepolo Suite once previously, for two nights in October 2023 at EUR 9,800 per night. The suite is the most architecturally distinguished single suite at any Venice Palace and is the room I would book first for a stay anchored on the heritage-palazzo experience as the principal proposition. The Tiepolo-frescoed alcove in the bedroom is the property’s most architecturally controlled single space and is the structural distinction that no other Venice Palace can replicate at the suite level.

The Papadopoli Suite

The Papadopoli Suite is the property’s apex signature suite — 240 square metres across the principal corner of the first piano nobile with two bedrooms, a formal sitting room with the most architecturally distinguished Grand-Canal view in the property, a formal dining room for ten, a private kitchen for chef arrangements, and the largest of the property’s frescoed ceilings. Rate, EUR 18,000 to EUR 24,000 per night depending on season and configuration.

I have not stayed in the Papadopoli Suite. I walked through the suite on the morning of February 17 under a turnover-day inspection arranged through the general manager’s office. The suite was being prepared for an evening arrival and the housekeeping team was running the deep-clean programme. The principal sitting room has a triple-aspect view across the Grand Canal toward the Rialto Bridge and the Ca’ Farsetti, and the frescoed ceiling is the most extensive of the Tiepolo-attributed frescoes in the property. The suite is the right answer for the highest-tier multi-person Venice stay at any Palace and has no credible alternative at the same scale in the city.

Dining across the property

Arva

Arva is the property’s principal restaurant — a 50-cover dining room on the ground-floor of the palazzo with garden-side orientation, open for breakfast, lunch and dinner across the operating week. The current executive chef is Matteo Panfilio, who oversees the kitchen alongside the Palazzo Kitchen Table experience and the broader F&B programme.

The menu at Arva is anchored on the regional Veneto produce network — the property runs a producer-partnership programme with approximately 30 Veneto-region farms, fishermen, and artisan-makers across the seasonal calendar — and runs a tasting-menu programme alongside the a la carte service. I dined at Arva twice on this stay: dinner on February 15 (a five-course tasting menu at EUR 175 per person before wine and service, with a half-bottle pairing programme at EUR 145 per person) and lunch on February 17 (a three-course a la carte selection).

The February 15 tasting: an appetiser of marinated tuna with a Sant’Erasmo artichoke composition; a pasta course of risotto with cuttlefish ink and a Vialone Nano rice base from the Veronese hinterland; a fish course of branzino with a sauce of clams from the lagoon and a fennel-and-saffron composition; a meat course of duck breast with a balsamic reduction and a polenta composition; a dessert programme of poached pear with a Veneto-region almond cream. The kitchen’s technical execution was at the high mark of the resort-Venetian register and was structurally consistent across the four courses; the risotto course was the strongest single dish of the dinner and is the canonical dish I would order on a return visit.

The Arva room itself is the property’s most operationally consistent F&B space and is the principal anchor of the property’s dining programme. The room seating is in two zones (principal dining room and a small garden-side conservatory); the garden-side seating is the property’s most heavily booked dinner zone through the spring and autumn windows. The wine programme at Arva is anchored on the property’s Veneto-and-Friuli cellar with a substantial Italian-broader and a small French selection; the sommelier corps is led by head sommelier Luca Gardini’s team.

Yellow Bar and Blue Bar

The Yellow Bar is the property’s principal bar on the first piano nobile — a Tiepolo-frescoed room with the Yellow-painted walls that give the bar its name, with the principal cocktail-and-aperitivo programme run from approximately 17:30 through midnight across the operating week. The bar’s signature cocktail is the Aman Negroni (a Venetian-Bitter-based variation on the classical Negroni), and the broader cocktail programme is anchored on the property’s contemporary register with Italian-aperitivo emphasis. The room seating is approximately 40 covers across the principal Yellow Room and a small adjacent corner; the room is the property’s most architecturally distinguished bar space in Venice.

The Blue Bar is the property’s secondary bar — a smaller room on the first piano nobile in the Blue-painted register with a more intimate cocktail-and-conversation programme. The room is the right answer for a more private aperitivo or a late-night session and is structurally less heavily booked than the Yellow Bar.

I drank at the Yellow Bar on three of the four evenings of this stay — the Aman Negroni programme is the most consistent cocktail programme at any Venice Palace bar in my experience, the bar-side service tempo is correctly paced to the aperitivo register, and the Tiepolo-frescoed ceiling is the most architecturally distinguished bar ceiling in the city. The Yellow Bar is the property’s most consistent operational programme outside Arva and the suite-side service.

Palazzo Kitchen Table and the in-suite programme

The Palazzo Kitchen Table is the property’s intimate-experience dining programme — a 6-to-8-cover counter in the principal kitchen with live cooking by chef Panfilio and the kitchen brigade, run by reservation across two services per week through the operating calendar. The experience runs at approximately EUR 320 per person and is the property’s most architecturally controlled F&B programme; reservations are typically required two to four weeks in advance through the operating year.

The in-suite dining programme is run through the property’s twenty-four-hour butler corps with the full Arva menu available across the day and a secondary in-suite tasting programme available by request. The in-suite tempo is the most refined at any Venice Palace and is the canonical in-suite breakfast service in Venice — the morning service at Aman Venice runs across approximately 90 minutes with a sequenced pastry-and-fruit course, a hot-egg course, and a coffee-and-tea-and-juice closing course.

Spa, garden, and the broader programme

The Aman Spa Venice is the property’s wellness operation — approximately 800 square metres across the ground-floor and mezzanine levels with three treatment rooms (two single, one couples’), a hammam, a small lap pool of approximately 12 metres, and a fitness facility with Technogym hardware. The treatment programme is run under the Aman signature wellness protocols with the property’s Venetian regional-product partnerships (the property uses a Murano-glass-based stone-massage programme and a Veneto-region salt-bathing protocol as the signature treatments). The spa is the property’s smallest operational programme by guest-volume but is the most underused spa at any Venice Palace and is the right answer for a guest who wants a private, low-traffic spa experience.

The garden programme at Aman Venice is the property’s most architecturally distinguished outdoor asset and is the only garden footprint of meaningful size at any Grand-Canal Palace. The two gardens — the Rio della Madonnetta-side principal garden of approximately 380 square metres and the calle-side secondary garden of approximately 220 square metres — are restored eighteenth-century Venetian gardens with citrus-tree planting, mature box hedging, and the property’s signature stone-bench programme. The principal garden is used as the spring-and-autumn lunch venue when weather permits and is the property’s most-photographed outdoor space.

Service register and the Aman operating culture

The service register at Aman Venice is the brand’s standard urban-property register — the most quietly attentive register at any Venice Palace, structurally less ceremonial than the Gritti and structurally more formal than the new Rosewood Bauer’s contemporary register. The doorman-and-butler corps operates on a recognition basis from a single prior stay; the suite-side service tempo is paced to the leisure-stay register the property is built around; the in-suite breakfast service is the property’s most refined operational programme outside the bar-side cocktail tempo.

The Aman operating culture — quiet, recognition-based, leisure-paced, with the brand’s signature staff-to-guest ratio at the high end of the global luxury register — is the structural feature that defines the property and is the principal reason that Aman Venice is the right answer for a heritage-palazzo Venice stay at the highest register. The structural contrast with the larger Venice Palaces (the Gritti at 82 keys, the Cipriani at 96 keys, the new Rosewood Bauer at 110 keys) is in the staff continuity, the recognition-from-arrival service tempo, and the suite-only inventory’s implications for the principal guest experience.

Comparisons across the Venice Palace tier

Gritti Palace (Marriott Luxury Collection)

The Gritti Palace is the canonical historical Grand-Canal Venice Palace — 82 rooms across the fifteenth-century Pisani-Gritti palazzo in the San Marco sestiere between the Salute and the Accademia bridge, the restored Hemingway connection, the Riva Lounge bar programme. The property holds the broader San Marco-side positioning that the Aman does not have and is the right answer for a guest who wants a heritage Venice Palace with the San Marco anchoring and the larger commercial-hotel-scale operating model.

Belmond Cipriani

The Belmond Cipriani is the LVMH-owned property on the southern tip of Giudecca island, accessible only by private launch from San Marco, with the Olympic-size pool (the only pool of meaningful size at any Venice Palace), the Oro restaurant under chef Riccardo Canella (one Michelin star), and the island-resort operating model. The property is structurally different from the Grand-Canal palazzi — the island position is the structural distinction — and is the right answer for an island-resort Venice stay with the pool programme as the principal anchor.

Rosewood Hotel Bauer

The Bauer reopened in mid-2025 as the Rosewood Hotel Bauer after a three-year closure for renovation under the new Mohari Hospitality and Omnam Investment Group ownership with Rosewood Hotels & Resorts as the operator. The renovated property has approximately 110 keys with over half configured as suites, a casual ground-floor restaurant and wine bar, a refined Venetian restaurant, and a rooftop bar with a traditional Venetian altana. The renovation was led by the Venetian architect Alberto Torsello with the BAR Studio interior team. The Rosewood Bauer is in its first full operating year in 2026 and is structurally the most contemporary of the major Venice Palaces; it is the right answer for a guest who wants the contemporary-Venice palace register at the larger scale with a major-brand operator.

Verdict at thirteen seasons

Aman Venice remains the most architecturally distinguished heritage-palazzo conversion in Venice at thirteen years of operation. The four-night stay across the Stanza Tiepolo Suite and the broader property programme confirmed that the Tiepolo-frescoed piano nobile remains the property’s defining structural distinction; the water-jetty arrival from the Grand Canal is the most architecturally controlled Venice arrival sequence; the 24-suite-only inventory is the right scale for the palazzo-as-private-residence operating model the property is built around; and the soprintendenza-supervised historic-interior restoration has aged with the discipline that the conversion programme was designed for.

The qualifications: at 24 suites the property is structurally smaller than every other Venice Palace and is not the right answer for a guest who wants a hotel-scale stay rather than a palazzo-residence stay; the F&B programme under Matteo Panfilio at Arva is competent but is not the strongest in-house dining in Venice (the Oro at the Cipriani holds the city’s Palace-tier Michelin star); the San Polo sestiere position is structurally less centrally tourist-frequented than the San Marco-anchored peers, which is a feature for some guests and a constraint for others. For a heritage-palazzo Venice stay at the highest architectural register, Aman Venice is the answer in 2026, and the property is unlikely to be displaced from that position across the foreseeable Venice Palace tier evolution.

Frequently Asked Questions

When did Aman Venice open and how did it relate to Aman Le Melezin in the European brand history?

Aman Venice opened in 2013 within Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal in the San Polo sestiere of Venice, and was Aman’s first European urban property — the property is correctly described as the brand’s first urban European hotel, but not the first European Aman overall. Aman Le Melezin, the ski property in Courchevel 1850 in the French Alps, opened in 1992 and is the brand’s first European property of any category. Amanzoe in Greece opened in 2012 (resort), making Aman Venice the third European Aman in chronological terms. Aman Venice is the brand’s first urban European property, the first European Aman in a heritage building, and the first European Aman with the brand’s water-arrival programme. The property sits within Palazzo Papadopoli, a fifteenth-century Venetian palazzo with sixteenth-century rebuilds and eighteenth-century interior commissions; the building was acquired from the Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga family for the Aman conversion, and the conversion was led under the architectural direction of Jean-Michel Gathy of Denniston with the historic-interior restoration conducted in coordination with the Soprintendenza for Venice’s heritage-classified buildings.

Who runs the kitchen at Arva at Aman Venice and what happened to Davide Bisetto?

The current executive chef at Arva at Aman Venice is Matteo Panfilio, who oversees the property’s principal restaurant programme on the ground floor of Palazzo Papadopoli alongside the Palazzo Kitchen Table experience and the broader F&B programme across the property. Davide Bisetto, who had previously been associated with Aman Venice’s culinary programme in earlier seasons of the property’s operation, is no longer at the property; the kitchen has been under Panfilio’s direction across the recent operating cycles. Arva is positioned as the property’s principal Venetian-Italian restaurant with an emphasis on regional Veneto produce and a tasting-menu programme that runs in parallel with the a la carte service. The Yellow Bar and the property’s broader F&B operation sit within the principal piano nobile programme of the palazzo with the Tiepolo-frescoed ceilings as the architectural anchor.

What is the Tiepolo fresco programme at Aman Venice and what does the piano nobile actually contain?

Palazzo Papadopoli’s piano nobile houses original frescoes by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, the eighteenth-century Venetian master whose work is the architectural anchor of the building’s principal floors. The Tiepolo-attributed work at Aman Venice is concentrated in the Yellow Room and the Red Room on the principal piano nobile, with the ceilings of both rooms attributed to Tiepolo’s atelier; additional frescoed work by Tiepolo’s collaborators and contemporary Venetian decorators covers the broader piano nobile programme. The Alcova Tiepolo Suite, one of the property’s signature suites, takes its name from a Tiepolo fresco in the bedroom of the suite. The piano nobile structure at Aman Venice runs across two levels — the first piano nobile at the principal floor above the water entry, and the second piano nobile above — and both levels contain restored historic interiors with frescoed ceilings, original eighteenth-century plasterwork, and the restored Murano-glass chandelier programme. The conversion preserved the frescoes through a soprintendenza-supervised restoration programme conducted across approximately 30 months from 2010 to 2013 prior to the property’s opening.

How does Aman Venice compare to the Gritti Palace, the Belmond Cipriani, and the Bauer (now reopened as Rosewood Hotel Bauer)?

The Gritti Palace, a Marriott Luxury Collection property in the San Marco sestiere on the Grand Canal between the Salute and the Accademia bridge, is the canonical historical Grand-Canal Venice Palace — 82 rooms across the fifteenth-century palazzo, the restored Hemingway connection, the Riva Lounge bar programme. The Belmond Cipriani is the LVMH-owned property on the southern tip of Giudecca island, accessible only by private launch, with the Olympic-size pool, the Oro restaurant under chef Riccardo Canella, and a different — island-resort — operating model from the Grand-Canal palazzi. The Bauer Hotel reopened in 2025 as the Rosewood Hotel Bauer after a three-year closure for renovation (the property closed in November 2022) under the new Mohari Hospitality and Omnam Investment Group ownership with Rosewood Hotels & Resorts as the operator; the renovation was led by the Venetian architect Alberto Torsello and the BAR Studio interior team, and the reopened property has approximately 110 keys with over half configured as suites. The Aman is the smallest of the four at 24 suites, has the most architecturally distinguished piano nobile programme (the Tiepolo frescoes are the property’s structural distinction), runs a different — palazzo-as-private-residence — operating register, and is the right answer for a guest who wants the heritage-palazzo interior register as the principal experience. For a guest who wants the larger Grand-Canal heritage Palace at a more commercial scale, the Gritti is the answer; for the island-resort register with the pool programme, the Cipriani; for the contemporary Venetian palazzo with a major-brand operator at the larger scale, the new Rosewood Bauer in its first operating year.

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