The Best Western Biasutti Hotel consists of two pleasant villas, situated in a garden setting between the lagoon and sea. The facility offers a private beach, extra charge. The hotel can be reached by car via a 30 minute ferry boat ride. Start your day with the buffet breakfast. Guests will be pleased with the lounge, babysitting service and parking. The rooms feature a television, mini-bar and AM/FM radio. Venice, the queen of the Venetian Lagoon from which the Venetians dominated the Adriatic for centuries, creating the most splendid of Marine Republics, leaves you stupefied for the diversity of its beauty, so much so that you wonder whether there is a single place in the city that is not worth seeing. Distributed over 18 little islands, the city maintains the old districts it always had, the sestieri: Cannaregio, S. Marco, Castello, S. Croce, S. Paolo and Dorsoduro, and includes the islands of S. Giorgio Maggiore and Giudecca. Throughout, you breathe in the unique atmosphere of a city which was a bridge between the East and the West: all evidence of unequalled cosmopolitanism and commercial wealth, transmitted by Venetians into public works and private houses. It is the case of the basilica di S. Marco, built in the 9th century, its cupola architecture and mosaic decorations inspired by the church of the SS. Apostoli in Constantinople, as is certainly the case with all Venetian-gothic monuments, including the Palazzo dei dogi which, with the Basilica, dominates Piazza S. Marco. Venice's splendour lasted throughout the centuries, giving rise to immortal works of art: from the Renaissance grace of the Rialto Bridge, to the classic 18th century beauty of the Chiesa della Salute, to the neoclassic equilibrium of the Teatro La Fenice, one of Italy's most prestigious, destroyed by a fire in 1996. Countless museums and galleries (among which it is worth mentioning at least the Gallerie dell'Accademia and the Museo Correr) preserve an unrivalled artistic heritage.
