Aman Venice
Palazzo Papadopoli, San Polo, Venice, Italy
Location
On the Grand Canal
In the Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal, Sestiere San Polo, central Venice — a two-minute walk to a vaporetto stop and near Piazza San Marco, with a private canal dock for gondola and boat arrival.
Transfer
By water
Arrival by water-taxi or gondola from the airport or the city to the palazzo's private canal dock on the Grand Canal.
Villas
24 rooms & suites
Twenty-four rooms and suites, many overlooking the Grand Canal or the private gardens — protected Tiepolo frescoes and reliefs, gilded ceilings and Cordoban leather, in a contemporary Jean-Michel Gathy design; the Alcova Tiepolo Suite reaches around a hundred square metres beneath a Tiepolo ceiling.
Best For
Who it suits
Couples, honeymooners, art and heritage travellers and anyone wanting the most intimate Venice stay — just twenty-four rooms in a frescoed Grand Canal palazzo, with private gardens, a roof terrace and after-hours access to the Doge's Palace.
Board Basis
Room only
Room only, with flexible all-day Italian dining across three gilded piano-nobile salons, a cocktail bar and a garden pergola for spritz.
About the Resort
An ultra-exclusive Grand Canal palazzo
Aman Venice is the ultra-exclusive Grand Canal palazzo hotel — just twenty-four rooms and suites in the sixteenth-century Palazzo Papadopoli, where guests sleep beneath original, museum-quality Tiepolo frescoes. Behind its walls lie two of Venice's rarest private gardens and a roof terrace, and arrival is by water at a private canal dock for gondola or boat. A contemporary Jean-Michel Gathy design plays against the gilded, frescoed historic salons, the dining is flexible all-day across three piano-nobile rooms, and Aman arranges exclusive after-hours access to the Doge's Palace. The largest suites overlook the Grand Canal or the gardens, the Alcova Tiepolo Suite reaching around a hundred square metres beneath a Tiepolo ceiling. The setting is the Floating City at its most rarefied: a two-minute walk reaches a vaporetto stop and Piazza San Marco, the Rialto, the Basilica and the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello are close, and the Biennale, the Film Festival and Carnival fill the calendar in season. This is Venice at its most intimate.
Accommodation
Rooms & suites
Twenty-four rooms and suites sit beneath protected Tiepolo frescoes and reliefs, with gilded ceilings and Cordoban leather in a contemporary Jean-Michel Gathy design, many overlooking the Grand Canal or the private gardens. The Alcova Tiepolo Suite reaches around a hundred square metres beneath a Tiepolo ceiling, the rarest of rooms in the rarest of cities, the contemporary Gathy design set against the gilded historic salons, where Tiepolo's ceilings turn an ordinary morning into something close to a private museum.
Entry
Stanza
Sleeps two. A king with frescoes and a canal or garden view.
FrescoedCanal/garden outlook
Larger
Papadopoli Stanza
Sleeps two. A high-ceilinged king with frescoes and garden and canal views.
High ceilingsGrand Canal outlook
Signature
Signature Room
Sleeps two. A king with museum-quality frescoes and reliefs, over the canal or garden.
Museum-qualityGrand Canal outlook
Top
Alcova Tiepolo Suite
Sleeps two. A 100-square-metre king beneath a Tiepolo ceiling fresco, with a Chinoiserie sitting room, over the Grand Canal.
Tiepolo ceilingGrand Canal outlook
Food & Drink
Dining
Dining is flexible and all-day across three frescoed piano-nobile salons, joined by a cocktail bar and a garden pergola for an afternoon spritz. It is intimate Italian cooking set among gilded ceilings on the Grand Canal, dinner moving with the hour and the season. Tables move with the hour across three frescoed salons, the garden pergola laid for an afternoon spritz behind the palazzo walls.
Signature
The piano nobile
The piano nobile, Italian across three frescoed salons.
Bar
The cocktail bar
The cocktail bar, and pergola spritz.
All-day
Flexible dining
Flexible dining, at any hour.
Wellbeing
Aman Spa
An Aman Spa brings three treatment rooms, a gym and a roof terrace over Venice for the wellness side of a stay. The deeper calm is the palazzo itself, two of Venice's rarest private gardens hidden behind its Grand Canal walls, and a roof terrace that lifts above the rooftops of San Polo, the canal lapping at the private dock below. The roof terrace lifts above the rooftops of San Polo, the two rare private gardens a hidden calm behind the canal-side walls.
Aman Spa
Aman Spa, three treatment rooms.
A roof terrace
A roof terrace, over Venice.
Private gardens
Private gardens, among Venice's rarest.
Activities & Experiences
Signature Experiences
The frescoes, the gardens and the city define a stay — sleep beneath original Tiepolo frescoes, wander two of Venice's rarest private gardens, arrive by boat at the private canal dock, and take Aman's after-hours access to the Doge's Palace. St Mark's, the Rialto, the Accademia and Peggy Guggenheim galleries and the lagoon islands of Murano and Burano are close, and Venice in the quieter months belongs almost to the palazzo alone. After-hours access to the Doge's Palace, the galleries of the Accademia and the lagoon islands of Murano and Burano round out a stay.
Tiepolo frescoes
Tiepolo frescoes, original and overhead.
Private gardens
Private gardens, two of Venice's rarest.
Arrive by boat
Arrive by boat, at a private dock.
The Doge's Palace
The Doge's Palace, after-hours access.
St Mark's & the Biennale
St Mark's and the Biennale, at the door.
Getting There
Location & transfers
By water
From the airport
Arrival by water-taxi or gondola at the private canal dock on the Grand Canal.
In the city
Central Venice
In the Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal, Sestiere San Polo, central Venice.
Guest Reviews
What Our Clients Say
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“The most extraordinary place I have ever stayed. Nothing prepares you for the depth of the silence, the beauty of the reef, or the sheer generosity of the experience.”
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★★★★★
“We’ve stayed here three times now. The house reef has no equal. The stargazing was, genuinely, one of the most moving experiences of my adult life.”
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“I had stayed at Four Seasons, One&Only and Velaa before visiting Aman Venice. They are all magnificent. But this is different in a way that is hard to articulate.”
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Good to Know
Good to know
Board basis
- Room only, with flexible all-day dining.
Year-round
- Year-round, in the heart of Venice.
Made for couples
- Made for couples and art and heritage travellers.
Getting there
- By water to the private canal dock.
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