Hotel Danieli: Difference between revisions

[[File:Hotel Danieli-dandolo 2012-05-27 corr2.jpg|thumb|Central wing of Hotel Danieli]]

The hotel's ismain locatedbuilding inis the Palazzo Dandolo,<ref name="Editoriale2005">{{cite book|last=Editoriale|first=Giunti Gruppo|title=Venice. Itineraries, shopping, restaurants, hotels|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=ZPIJGu0V-KEC&pg=PA73|accessdate=8 June 2013|year=2005|publisher=Giunti Editore|isbn=978-88-09-03916-2|pages=73–}}</ref> close to the [[Piazza San Marco|St. Mark’sMark's Square]],<ref name="Sharland2013">{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Sharland|title=Classical Destinations|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=D7a7V4UgK00C&pg=PA1|accessdate=7 June 2013|date=25 February 2013|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1-4759-7703-5|pages=1–2}}</ref> with a rear facade on the Riva degli Schiavoni's quayside promenade<ref name="Sherwood2008">{{cite book|last=Sherwood|first=Marie|title=Orient Express Picturesque Travelog|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=nQF7fUWjNMwC&pg=PT27|year=2008|publisher=Wheatmark, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60494-005-3|pages=27–}}</ref> borderingoverlooking the [[GrandSaint Canal]]Mark's Basin. It adjoins a number of buildings dated to the 14th and 15th century.<ref name="Moretti2010">{{cite book|author=John Moretti|title=Frommer's Northern Italy: with Venice, Milan and the Lakes|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=ZpwDLxqASpQC&pg=PA14|date=2 March 2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-64529-1|pages=14–}}</ref> Access to the hotel is by boat only, with the hotel's own luxury boats for guests from the airport. There are also public ferry boats known as "[[water taxi]]s".

[[File:D'sVenezia, palacedanieli, cortile.jpgJPG|thumb|rightleft|Doge'sStaircase palace, next toof the hotel, viewed from the square.palace]]

In the 17th century, ownership was with the Mocenigo and the Bernardo families who continued to hold grand social events. At the wedding celebration of [[Giustiniana Wynne|Giustiniana Mocenigo]] with Lorenzo Giustinian in 1629, [[Giulio Strozzi]]'s ''[[Monteverdi's_lost_operass lost operas#Proserpina_rapitaProserpina rapita (1630)|Proserpina Rapita]]'' was performed with music by [[Monteverdi]]. The two families were still the owners of the building at the fall of the [[Venetian Republic]] in 1797.<ref name=History/> After sufferingthe building had suffered the effecteffects of the city's decline, the Venetian hotel-keeper [[Giuseppe Dal Niel]] of [[FruliFriuli]], known as Danieli, rented the first floor of the building from 24 October 1822 for his own use and to house his guests. In 1824, appreciating its potential as a centrally located meeting place, he bought the entire building, lavishly restored it, and converted it into a hotel andwhich renamedhe itappropriately renamed "Danieli".<ref name=History/>

Many notable artists, writers, musicians and other luminariesmusicians stayed here, among them [[Goethe]], [[Wagner]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Byron]], [[Peggy Guggenheim]], [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Benjamin Britten]], [[Harrison Ford]], and [[Steven Spielberg]].<ref name="Sharland2013"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/britten-and-the-string-quartet-a-classical-impulse-string-quartet-no3 |title=Britten and the String Quartet: A Classical Impulse – String Quartet No.3 |website=[[Gresham College]] |date=27 June 2013 |accessdate=6 March 2015 }}</ref> [[John Ruskin]] stayed here when he was working on [[The Stones of Venice (book)|''The Stones of Venice'']]. One of the most popular rooms in the hotel is Number 10. It was here that Aurore Dudevant, better known as [[George Sand]], stayed with her lover [[Alfred de Musset]].<ref name="Sharland2013"/> The biography of George Sand, under the section "Love and Genius", brings out the romantic details of their stay in this room. During this period, the famous restaurant, first known as the Caffè Brigiacco, came into being among the shops which developed on the ground floor. As it was run by two Greek brothers who had a liking for oriental dress, it later became known as the "Caffè Orientale".<ref name=History/>

In the 19th century, private beach access was a feature of the hotel,<ref name=Sherwood2008 /> while guests could use the services of interpreters who were versed in different European languages.<ref name="Bradshaw1887">{{cite book|title=Bradshaw's Monthly Continental Railway, Steam Transit, and General Guide, for Travellers Through Europe|url=httphttps://booksarchive.google.comorg/books?id=w3dKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA852details/bub_gb_w3dKAAAAYAAJ|edition=Public domain|year=1887|publisher=Adams & Sons|pages=852–[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_w3dKAAAAYAAJ/page/n961 852]–}}</ref> In 1895, when the building's ownership changed hands, it was modernized with extensive electrical fittings, lifts and central heating, transforming it into the luxurious "Hotel Royal Danieli".<ref name=History/>

By end of the 19th century, a bridge link was established, connectingannexing the hotel to ana 19th-century adjoining palace. Innow known as the Casa Nuova which became part of the hotel in 1906.<ref name=efidf/> That year, together with four other luxurious hotels in Venice, itthe Danieli came under the control of Compagnia Italiana Grandi Alberghi (CIGA), owned by Count [[Giuseppe Volpi]].<ref name=History/> Further changes to the façade were undertaken by the architect [[Francesco Marsich]]. Finally, from 1946 to 1948 after the buildings between the Palazzo Dandolo and the [[Palazzo delle Prigioni]] had been demolished, the hotel was substantially refurbishedextended. The "Danielino" (Little Daniele), a new building with a marble façade designed by [[Virgilio Vallot]].<ref, name=History/>became Thethe namelast ofaddition to the hotel now became "Danielino".<ref name=History/><ref name=efidf/>

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