Hotel Art Déco is Just behind the most interesting museum “Palazzo Grassi” featuring special exhibitions all year round. Palazzo Grassi will host in Venice a major retrospective devoted to the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí. The exhibition, celebrating the centenary of the birth of the versatile Catalan master, will take place from September 2004 to January 2005.

Piazza San Marco is only 5 minutes away by foot. The Piazza - the only urban space big enough to be called a piazza in Venice - is dominated by the Basilica of San Marco and the Doge's Palace , and by the Basilica's campanile (lit. "bell tower") which stands apart from it.
	The South-East corner by the campanile is open to the lagoon; the rest is surrounded by historic buildings. The square boasts two old, famous and expensive coffee houses, Gran Caffè quadri and Caffè Florian.

 - the only urban space big enough to be called a piazza in Venice - is dominated by the Basilica of San Marco and the Doge's Palace , and by the Basilica's campanile, which stands apart from it. The South-East corner by the campanile is open to the lagoon; the rest is surrounded by historic buildings. The square boasts two old, famous and expensive coffee houses, Gran Caffè Quadri and Caffè Florian. It is extremely popular with tourists, photographers and pigeons. An earlier version of the present Basilica was built on this site in 829, when Venetian merchants acquired the relics of St. Mark at Alexandria. In the 11th century it was remodelled in imitation of the Basilica of the Apostles at Constantinople. It has served as the city's Cathedral since the 12th century. The succeeding centuries, especially the fourteenth, all contributed to its adornment, and seldom did a Venetian vessel return from the Orient without bringing a column, capitals, or friezes, taken from some ancient building, to add to the fabric of the basilica. Its whole pavement is mosaic; it contains gold, bronze, and the greatest variety of stones. The face is decorated with mosaics of different periods, Byzantine sculptures, and statues of the Evangelists and the Saviour. The four horses of gilded bronze above the great doorway date to Classical Antiquity; by some accounts they once adorned the Arch of Trajan. The horses were long displayed at the Hippodrome in Constantinople, and in 1204 Enrico Dandolo brought them to Venice as part of the loot sacked from Constantinople from in the Fourth Crusade. The mosaics of the atrium and the interior belong partly to the tenth century. The plan of the interior consists of three longitudinal and three transverse naves. Over the high altar is a baldacchino on columns decorated with eleventh-century reliefs; the altarpiece is the famous Pala d'oro (Golden Pall), Byzantine metal-work of the year 1105, originally designed for an antependium. Behind the high altar is another altar with alabaster columns. The choir stalls are embellished with inlaying by Fra Sebastiano Schiavone, and above them on both sides are three reliefs by Sansovino. On the two marble pulpits of the ambo are statuettes by the Massegne brothers (1394). Also in the choir are Sansovino's bronze statutes of the Evangelists and Caliari's of the Four Doctors. The crypt is underneath the choir.

It reopened on 14 December, 2003 with an inaugural concert of Beethoven, Wagner, and Stravinsky. The first opera production will be La Traviata in November, 2004. In 1774, the San Benedetto Theater, which had been Venice's leading opera house for more than forty years, burned to the ground. No sooner had it been rebuilt than a legal dispute broke out between the company managing it and the owners, the Venier family. The issue was decided in favor of the Veniers. As a result, the theater company decided to build a new opera house of its own on the Campo San Fantin.
the construction began in June 1790, and by May 1792 the theater was completed. It was named "La Fenice", in reference to the company's survival, first of the fire, then of the loss of its former quarters. La Fenice was inaugurated on May 16, 1792 with an opera by Giovanni Paisiello entitled I Giochi di Agrigento. From the beginning of the 19th century, La Fenice acquired a European reputation. In December 1836, disaster struck again when the theater was destroyed by fire. However, the theater was quickly rebuilt; La Fenice once again rose from its ashes to open its doors on the evening of December 26, 1837. Giuseppe Verdi's association with La Fenice began in 1844, with a performance of Ernani during the Carnival season. Over the next thirteen years, the premieres of Attila, Rigoletto, La Traviata and Simon Boccanegra took place there. In March 2001, a court in Venice found two electricians guilty of setting the fire. Enrico Carella and his cousin, Massimiliano Marchetti, appeared to have set the building ablaze because their company was facing heavy fines over delays in repair work.  After various delays, reconstruction began in earnest in 2001. In 650 days, a team of two hundred plasterers, artists, woodworkers, and other craftsman succeeded in recreating the ambience of the old theater at a cost of some € 90 million. Critical response to the rebuilt La Fenice has been mixed. The music critic of the rightwing paper Il Tempo, Enrico Cavalotti, was satisfied. He found the colors a bit bright but the sound good and compact. For his colleague Dino Villatico of the leftwing La Repubblica, however, the acoustics of the new hall lacked resonance and the colors were painfully bright. He found it "kitsch, a fake imitation of the past". He said that "the city should have had the nerve to build a completely new theater; Venice betrayed its innovative past by ignoring it". However, for many Venetians, a painful wound in the historical, much-admired cityscape has been healed. Going South, 2 minutes walking distance, one of the 3 bridges that crosses the Grand Canal :