Luxury Hoteliers Magazine 1st Quarter 2017 | Page 76

Luxuriating in Venice and the Dolomites

By Adam Jacot de Boinod
Where could be more chic than the Aman Venice ( www . aman . com / resorts / aman-venice ) the venue for George Clooney ’ s wedding night ? This is truly a grand and splendid late-Renaissance Palazzo set midway along the Grand Canal . And it ’ s surely here in Venice , of all places , that it is most rewarding to have a spa treatment . Escape the heady mix of visual stimulation , the imbalance of water travel , the frenzied tourists and the tight passageways with dead ends . All this can be left aside as soon as you enter the graceful pace and spacious expanse of the Aman Venice .
Tucked away down a narrow passageway from the street is a discreet gateway . From the front there ’ s an impressive jetty along with the rarity for the Grand Canal of a garden . There are only 24 guest rooms . Go up the main staircase with leaded windows and frescoes , and you reach the piano nobile which houses the ball room . Here the silk wall coverings are by the top Italian textile houses Bevilacqua , Fortuny and
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