The Apartment

Piccola Perla is a charming apartment, ideally located in the San Antonin area of Castello in Venice, perhaps the world's most beautiful city. San Antonin is easily accessible from the vaporetto (water-bus) stops at Arsenale or San Zaccaria. Water taxi can disembark at Ponte San Antonin.

The two-roomed Venice apartment has its own external door leading from Ramo Del L'Arco, a quiet lane. This opens into the apartment's private courtyard.

The original building dates from the 16th Century. The restored apartment is enhanced by marble floors and the original beams. Perfect for a couple taking a romantic break, Piccola Perla can sleep up to four people if the sofa bed is used.The private courtyard, where you can sip a complimentry Prosecco, contains an ancient well, now filled with plants.

Description

The double bedroom has an en-suite marble-lined shower room, whilst the sitting/dining room has a neat mini-kitchen which can be concealed behind folding doors. The sitting room can be used as a second bedroom. Often two single people like a bed each, and the apartment is suitable to accommodate children.

The apartment offers a range of books and films to watch on DVD. It is fully equipped and bedding and towels are provided. Heaters for the winter, fans for the summer.

There is a flexibility with dates as often flights are more economical midweek. Payment is in stirling.

"No one enters Venice as a  stranger"

The sofa bed offers an opportunity for children to stay, or the use of two beds.

An advantage of staying in the apartment is buying delicious food from the deli counter in the local Punto. Useful too when children stay.

Venice

Although minutes from the Riva Degli Schiavoni and the lagoon, San Antonin is much more the living Venice.

Salizzada San Antonin is a wide curved street between Ponte Greci and Campo Bandiera e Moro where you can take your morning coffee at the cafe and do your local shopping at a small supermarket or the bakers. A ten-minute stroll to San Marco and the Doge's Palace takes you past the Scuola Di San Giorgio Degli Schiavoni, art galleries, antique jewellers and mask shops where you can see hand-crafted masks being made.

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Locality

Walking through San Antonin famous restaurants are hidden away, Al Cova and Corte Sconta.
Five minutes to the east is the Arsenale, Venice's ancient Renaissance  shipyards, where two contemporary theatres host international events. Beyond is the Giardini Biennale and the Lido for summer beaches, which is two stops away on the vaporetto.

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Donna Leon's famous dective books bring San Antonin to life as the Questura is nearby at Ponte Greci. Campo Bandiera e Moro is the local square famous for the church, San Giovanni in Bragora, where Vivaldi was baptised.