The last extensive restoration of the palace took place more than 30 years ago. At that time, all antique furniture was carefully restored. Some guest rooms have the same design that is unchanged for many decades. There is a guest room in the ancient palace where Earnest Hemingway lived for quite a long time. This is the place where he worked over his novel Across the River and into the Trees. Fans of Peggy Guggenheim are also well-aware of Gritti Palace as she celebrated her 80th anniversary in one of the most luxurious guest rooms in the hotel in 1978.
Bauer Palazzo has a fantastic location – a beautiful 18th-century palace. Austrian entrepreneur Julius Grünwald and his wife were the first owners of the hotel. By the way, the wife was a daughter of Mr. Bauer who was the owner of the famous De la Ville hotel in the end of the 19th century. In 1930, Bauer Palazzo got a new owner – shipbuilder Arnaldo Bennati. Under his guidance, the hotel was fully restored. During that extensive renovation, which took almost 10 years, the building got a new modern unit. Despite the fact that nowadays the two buildings, which belong to different epochs, are two different hotels, they are still connected by a system of passages. Therefore, everyone is welcome to visit the historic building.
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