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The Albergo Guerrato in Venice, Italy

Albergo Guerrato

Rarely will you find such an excellent marriage of price, atmosphere, and genuine warmth at any Venice hotel. Roberto Zammattio is constantly expanding and upgrading his 20-room pensione in a 13th-century palazzo near the Rialto Bridge.

The good-sized rooms with their patched-up chipped-stone flooring and historic Venice photos are spruced up with Murano lamps, scraps of frescoes in a few (best in no. 3), and a stupendous melange of antique-yet-homey furnishings. Rooms overlooking the Rialto market to a sliver of Grand Canal and the Ca d'Oro beyond tend to be smaller—and quite noisy during the early-morning market.

Roberto also rents some lovely, fully equipped apartments in the building and near San Marco.

San Polo 240A, on Calle Dietro la Scimia, near the Rialto Market

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