Welcome to Hotel San Samuele

Hotel San Samuele is located in Venice, a 10-minute walk from St Mark's Square and the Rialto Bridge.

We will open in 2026 with new rooms, new ambience and a new concept of hospitality.

In the meantime, we would like to start by letting you dream, teasing your curiosity with the colours, furnishings and who we are inspired by.

Venice is an open-air theatre: full of grace, mystery, art and history.

(Fabrizio Caramagna, writer)

The colours of Venice, its history and its characters give character and names to the rooms: Marco Polo, Battiloro, Lompasso, Samiteri, Smaltino, Tintoretto.

Smaltino, a pigment made from glass powder, was used by Bellini and Tintoretto and other Venetian painters during the Renaissance.

The green colour can be found in many Venetian Renaissance paintings and also recalls the performance of the Argentinean artist and architect Uriburu, a pioneer of Land Art, who was the protagonist of an artistic-environmental blitz at the Biennale d'Arte: he coloured the waters of the Grand Canal a bright green, using a pigment that made the microorganisms in the water phosphorescent.

Gold leaf was mainly used in Byzantine and Renaissance works of art. In Venice, in the 18th century, there were more than 300 ‘Battiloro’ and ‘Tiraoro’ workshops, an ancient art of gold work imported to the lagoon city from Byzantium and then spread to various parts of Italy and Europe.

Venetian red obtained from purified, dried and ground hematite red earth. Lorenzo Lotto, Giovanni Carioni and Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo worked in Venice between 1520 and 1530 and were the masters of Venetian colour, especially red.

An immersive experience of some of the many tesserae that characterise Venice, a mosaic of history, culture, art and magic.

A journey within a journey to be: imagined, savoured and experienced.