Venice 2024 #3 - Hotel St. Regis in Venice
My photograph shows the St. Regis Hotel in Venice, which I took during my trip to Venice in the summer of 2024. As with my photograph of the Campanile di San Marco, this unique perspective was achieved from my vantage point on the dome of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, offering a lovely view of the beautiful white façade bearing the word 'Regina', the terraces with their deep green plants, and the hotel's orange roof tiles. Together with the Grand Canal, which runs right past the building and just below the ground-floor restaurant, the building is truly beautifully framed. The passing reddish-brown boat with its white-clad helmsman breathes even more life into the picture and completes it.
Details about the St. Regis Hotel
The 5-star luxury St. Regis Venice hotel is part of the Marriott hotel group and is distinguished by its excellent location right on the Grand Canal in the heart of Venice. For example, it is only about 200 metres from St Mark's Square and 400 metres from the Doge's Palace. ¹ The operator particularly highlights its modern interior design – which nevertheless pays homage to the city's historical heritage – as well as the service and the hosting of exclusive cultural and artistic events. The hotel and individual rooms are decorated with paintings by renowned artists such as Claude Monet, Olivier Masmonteil, Jaume Plensa and Lorenzo Quinn. Various activities, such as boat trips and arts and crafts workshops, are also promoted. The hotel has 124 guest rooms and 39 suites (figures vary depending on the source, but have been taken directly from the operator here), some of which offer access to a private terrace.² The rooms are spread over a total of six floors, which are accessible via five lifts. The building was last extensively renovated in 2019 following its takeover by Marriott.³ The Grand Hotel Britannia, which opened in 1895, was previously housed on these premises and welcomed famous guests such as Claude Monet, to whom a total of four suites are dedicated. However, the building was not constructed from scratch at the time but extends across a total of five former palazzi, the oldest of which, the Palazzo Badoer Tiepolo, dates back to the 17th century.⁴
My thoughts on editing this image
My idea for this image was to make the colours so rich and vibrant that the main elements of the picture immediately catch the eye. It was particularly important to me to lighten the slightly darker water of the Grand Canal and give it a hint of turquoise. I also wanted to highlight the white façade of the St. Regis Hotel, with its orange-coloured bricks and deep green foliage (as can also be seen in the picture of the narrow alleyway), to create a striking contrast. The boat passing by in the lower third of the frame, with its high-gloss wooden finish and the boatman dressed in white, brings additional life to the image. Finally, I cropped the image slightly and aligned the lines correctly to place the beautiful hotel at the centre of the frame.
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¹ Own measurement using Google Maps (06.09.2026)
² https://www.marriott.com/de/hotels/vcexr-the-st-regis-venice/overview/ (06.09.2026)
³ https://www.tui.at/hotels/st-regis-venice-san-marco-23047/hotelinformation/ (06.09.2026)
⁴ https://marriott-international.pressarea.com/en/pressrelease/details/15348 (06.09.2026)